Life During Wartime gets three awards in France
Life During Wartime won the Grand Prix of the 21st Valenciennes International Film Festival last Sunday. Allison Janney won Best Actress and Todd Solondz won Best Director.
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Maybe the best of Solondz’ movies.
The film’s key narrative strand centers on a pre-teen boy’s growing homosexual panic as he learns his estranged father – a brilliantly restrained character turn from Ciarán Hinds – is a paedophile, while the film’s every interaction is predicated on a social taboo of some sort, a little like the world’s most inappropriate sitcom.
Life During Wartime won the best screenplay award at the Venice International Film Festival last year.