NP: From the Lynch to the Solondz

[Steven Koteff]

Forgot to mention that the star of the movie, Heather Matarazzo, is listed
as a notable alum of Oyster Bay High.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just finishing David Lynch in our movie project (whom I have become sort
> of obsessed with; I can't overhype the esteem I hold him in now; he's on my
> internal Olympus of artmakers) and moving into Todd Solondz.
>
> We watched TS's *Welcome to the Dollhouse *last night, and I really
> recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it. It's kind of a remarkable movie.
> It's really just the story of a very socially-unfortunate suburban
> 11-yr-old named Dawn. The persistent agony of her life as she comes of age.
> It manages to be remarkably sad and moving about straightforwardly
> emotional material without ever (in my opinion) becoming sentimental. It's
> interesting to watch it on the heels of Lynch's stuff, as they both include
> a lot of material that is overtly high-drama yet earn it in totally
> different ways, despite both embracing the drama head-on. Solondz is much
> dryer, though not at all disaffected. Very dark, very funny. Also maybe the
> best and truest treatment of young characters (and use of young actors) I
> can remember seeing in a movie. Maybe it helps that I was a child in
> roughly the same era of the movie. But I think it's really well-done. There
> are a few minor story elements I might quibble with, but not enough to
> really diminish the effect of the movie much.
>
> Anybody seen this thing? Is Solondz generally on your radar?
>
> Apparently his new movie stars Greta Gerwig as the girl from *Dollhouse *all
> grown up.
>
>
>
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