Todd Solondz‘s latest film Dark Horse is currently travelling the world’s film festival circuit, and this week we get our first look at the film’s trailer (which emerged from a recent festival screening in Poland). The film might appear to be a standard romantic comedy, but is actually a deconstruction of the man-child comedy. In a feature article yesterday The Playlist wrote the following: “Led by little known charactor actor Jordan Gelber, he plays a thirtysomething man still living with his parents (Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow), who seeks to marry a woman he just met, who is also in a similar state of arrested development (Selma Blair) in an attempt to shed his label as the dark horse of the family. Justin Bartha and Zachary Booth play, respectively, the protagonist’s brother and cousin, while Aasif Mandvi appears as Blair’s ex-boyfriend, and Donna Murphy is Walken’s secretary at the company he runs, where Gelber works.” It’s definitely a different tone for Solondz, but should definitely be worth seeing when it hits theaters sometime in 2012.
