Carnage
Chitty chatty pewk pewk - ★★½
The path from stage to screen can be a troubled one.
Even a great director can struggle if he decides to limit himself to a single location and challenge the viewer’s attention span with long dialogue-heavy scenes. Sometimes it works wonders and can create a flawless film, as with Sidney Lumet’s 1957 masterpiece 12 Angry Men. But usually you begin to lose focus and just wish the characters would go outside for a walk or something – Lars Von Trier’s experimentally sparse single-set drama Dogville being a prime example.
