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'Synecdoche, New York'

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You can look it up: A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole ("wheels" for "car") or the other way around ("the law" for "policeman").

Is art a synecdoche? Is life? Those are just two of the many, many questions posed in Charlie Kaufman's intriguing mess of a film, " Synecdoche, New York." In his directorial debut, screenwriter Kaufman ("Eternal Sunshine of...

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