charlie kaufman is the screenwriting genius who won a bafta for being john malkovich, and another for third for an eternal sunshine in a spotless mind which he also nabbed an oscar. he has fared less well as a director, with 2008 synecdoche, new york polarising critics and bombing at the box office, earning less than a quarter of its $20 million budget. we will never know if kaufman's critically fated latest proves more popular, since it's released direct netflix, their audience figures are a closely—guarded secret. i am visiting jake's parents for the first time. the typically solipsistic story centres on a snowy road trip taken by young couple played byjesse plemons and jessie buckley. we're here! toni collette and david thewlis are the mum and dad whose age changes between scenes and whose remote farmhouse seems to be the stuff of dreams, or nightmares. what exactly is going on? and more importantly, do we care? well, in the case of ian reed's short source novel, the answer is yes. not least because the twilight zone with a—levels narrative rushes towards a page turning third act i

show i've been touring about peril pinta it's called a celebration of americans or something john malkovich and i devised together and. well originally with harold and he had seen that and i think that's why he wanted me to play this this character i think was shot in november almost 2 years ago. in something bohemia and the little farmhouse they found as the location was a deeply creepy place it fell but in a axis act by reacting so that environment and that location gave me a great deal to to work with you know in the 1st of this program we've spoken to someone from the u.n. in libya and you mention the horrors inflicted on this child is a wider point about the horrors inflicted on civilians fleeing war that this film can illustrate charlie i think is very contemporary and that and that because there's no nothing is glamorized in this it's a very hard and unflinching unswerving observation of this boy's story was absolutely it relates to many situations and areas of the world today and some of them very close to the united northwest europe where we are living so comfortably in spite of. c

charlie kaufman is the screenwriting genius who won a bafta for being john malkovich, another for adaptation less than a quarter of its $20 million budget. we'll never know if kaufman's critically feted latest proves more popular, since it's released direct to netflix — their audience figures a closely—guarded secret. i am visiting jake's parents for the first time. the typically solipsistic story centres on a snowy road trip taken by young couple played byjesse plemons and jessie buckley. we're here! toni collette and david thewlis are the mum and dad whose age changes between scenes and whose remote farmhouse seems to be the stuff of dreams or nightmares. what exactly is going on? and more importantly, do we care? well, in the case of ian reed's short source novel, the answer is yes. not least because the twilight zone with a—levels narrative rushes towards a page turning third act in which cod psychology meets psycho splatter. you have to go. i have to go where? forward. not so the movie, which sheds the trashy treats of reed's book, replacing stalk—and—slash thrills with sombre song—and—