Further provocation from Todd Solondz (Storytelling, Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse), on the hot-potato topics of teen pregnancy, abortion, pedophilia, evangelical Christians. Willing to offend, unwilling to coddle, he seems almost more callous than fearless. His big brainstorm this time is to multiply the gimmick that Luis Buñuel hit upon in That Obscure Object of Desire. Instead of two actresses taking turns playing one role, Solondz hands off the teen heroine to a relay team of seven or eight players, of markedly different types, sizes, ages, races, all of them quite ordinary and unactressy (excepting only Jennifer Jason Leigh, a forty-year-old teenager), most of them, in fact, quite amateurish and uncomfortable. This device adds a little interest, but not a lot of meaning. The title doesn't appear to amount to much, either: the heroine is named Aviva, and she encounters a Bob and an Otto. With Ellen Barkin, Richard Masur, Debra Monk. (2005) — Duncan Shepherd
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