Todd Solondz

Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema''s premier satirist. Blending a trademark black humor into atmospheres of grueling bleakness, Solondz repeatedly takes moviegoers into a bland suburban junk space peopled by the damaged, the neglected, and the depraved.Julian Murphet appraises the career of the controversial, if increasingly ignored, i...