The director’s prickly oeuvre and caustic wit has seen him labelled a misanthrope – but this 1995 breakout proves he’s far sweeter than meets the eye
or a too-brief swatch of the 90s, independent cinema in America flourished. Among the gaggle of buzzy new auteurs were Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Todd Haynes – and, a mousy, seemingly mild-mannered guy whose work revealed a caustic wit and a keen eye for the bland kitschiness of the suburbs.
At home, Dawn repurposes her classmates’ jeers: “Drop dead, lesbo!” she berates her little sister Missy – their mother’s favourite, perennially tutu-clad and prancing. A burgeoning crush on hunky Jim Morrison wannabe Steve affords Dawn escape via daydreams – but he barely registers her clumsy overtures.
And yet: unlike certain other members of the so-called “Sundance generation”, Solondz’s career has been in smooth decline, financially speaking, over the past two decades. Each of his films since Dollhouse has generated exponentially decreasing box office returns . In no Solondz film is this knowing tenderness more palpable than Welcome to the Dollhouse – which likely accounts for its being his only financial success, and makes it the ideal entry point into a body of work that might appear, well, less than welcoming.. “Even supermodel Cindy Crawford.” His more explicitly deviant creations – like the paedophile father from Happiness , his controversial follow-up to Dollhouse – will inevitably test the viewer’s willingness to identify with them.
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