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Carnage

Country: France, Language: English, 80 mins

  • Director: Roman Polanski
  • Writer: Yasmina Reza
  • Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd; Oliver Berben

CGiii Comment

There's no LGBT content per se...but, Jodie's in it...

A mature comedy with some genuinely funny lines.

Unfortunately, it hasn't travelled from the stage to the screen with the desired confidence. The intensity and the brittleness...gone.

It just seems a little too short and the abrupt ending will leave you feeling rather unsatisfied and, perhaps, cheated.


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The(ir) Blurb...

In Brooklyn Bridge Park, eleven year old Zachary Cowan strikes his eleven year old classmate Ethan Longstreet across the face with a stick after an argument. Among the more serious of Ethan's injuries is a permanently missing tooth and the possibility of a second tooth also being lost. Their respective parents learn of the altercation through Ethan's parents questioning him about his injuries. The Longstreet parents invite the Cowan parents to their Brooklyn apartment to deal with the incident in a civilized manner. They are: Penelope Longstreet, whose idea it was to invite the Cowans, she whose priorities in life include human rights and justice; Michael Longstreet, who tries to be as accommodating as possible to retain civility in any situation; Nancy Cowan, a nervous and emotionally stressed woman; and Alan Cowan, who is married more to his work as evidenced by the attachment he has to his cell phone and taking work calls at the most inopportune times.

Cast & Characters

Jodie Foster as Penelope Longstreet;
Kate Winslet as Nancy Cowan;
Christoph Waltz as Alan Cowan;
John C. Reilly as Michael Longstreet;
Elvis Polanski as Zachary Cowan;
Eliot Berger as Ethan Longstreet;
Joseph Rezwin as Walter;
Nathan Rippy as Dennis;
Tanya Lopert as Michael's Mother - Telephone Voice;
Julie Adams as Secretary