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Tales of the unexpected

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Todd Solondz's latest effort is interesting but deeply flawed and almost entirely lacking in the wild black humour of his unconventional breakout film Happiness.

The film looks at the intricacies of truth and fiction in two tales: in the first, Vi is taken advantage of by her creative writing professor (Robert Wisdom) then enacts an improbable revenge; in the second, an ambitious dork (Paul Giamatti) makes an intrusive film about rebellious, celebrity-hungry teenager Scooby (Mark Webber).

Intellectually challenging, but it falls down as cinema, and there are no DVD extras.

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