ADAPTATION - Comedy Film Fest at FOMO Cinema

Spike Jonze | 2002 | USA | 1h55m | English language with English subtitles

Spike Jonze’s ADAPTATION. is one of the strangest studio-era American comedies of the 2000s, and one of the smartest films ever made about writing, self-hatred, artistic fraud, and the humiliations of trying to turn life into story. Written by Charlie Kaufman and starring Nicolas Cage in one of his best performances, it begins as a film about a screenwriter failing to adapt a book, then gradually collapses into a dizzying comedy about identity, insecurity, and the ridiculous machinery of Hollywood storytelling itself.

What makes it work is that for all its conceptual brilliance, it is also genuinely funny. Cage plays anxiety so well that whole scenes become comic just from the force of his discomfort. The film keeps folding in on itself, but never loses its emotional pull. It's one of my all-time-favourite comedies and I really hope you'll join us here at FOMO to see Kaufamn, Jonze and Cage in this holy trifecta of comedic brilliance.

WHY I'VE INCLUDED IT IN THIS WEEK’S PROGRAM: It's one of the greatest high-wire act comedies of modern American cinema. It's cerebral without being stiff, funny without chasing easy laughs, and bizarre without ever being hard to follow or losing the audience. I feel like it gives the week a major writer-director collaboration and a film that rewards both first-time viewers and repeat viewers.

LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.

HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to the first floor. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us:
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