Interview: Charlie Kaufman
A 40+ minute conversation with the writer-director of the new film I’m Thinking of Ending Things.
A 40+ minute conversation with the writer-director of the new film I’m Thinking of Ending Things.
Charlie Kaufman is best known as a screenwriter with such writing credits as Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but he is also a writer-director of the movies Synecdoche, New York, Anomalisa, and his latest film I’m Thinking of Ending Things. Plot summary via Netflix:
Despite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of everything she knew or understood about her boyfriend, herself, and the world. An exploration of regret, longing and the fragility of the human spirit, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS is directed and written by Academy Award® winner Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Inspired by Iain Reid’s bestselling namesake novel.
Here is Kaufman in a Talks At Google video about his latest movie:
A trailer for I’m Thinking of Ending Things:
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