'Carnage' is Roman Polanski's film adaptation of Yasmina Reza's play 'God of Carnage' which I saw staged by the Sydney Theatre Company a few years back.
Two New York couples meet in the apartment of one of them to discuss a response to a playground fight between their pre-teenage sons. Controlled civility is gradually unmasked as the meeting disintegrates first into antagonism and then outright aggression.
The play was staged entirely in the lounge room and whilst the movie, cleverly filmed on a Parisian set, strays slightly further it remains firmly rooted indoors.
A mix of drama and comedy about modern urban foibles that won't appeal to everyone but Cs and I enjoyed it.
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