Could I be more excited about Charlie Kaufman's new film, which has just debuted in Cannes and which is going to win the Palme d'Or in a sort of indifferent fashion? No, I could not, because although Synecdoche, New York has been described in the Guardian as "difficult to say and even harder to understand" it is set in my very own funny little home town of Schenectady, New York. You have no idea how thrilling this is...
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