Adaptation

Four and a half stars. Highly recommended. Award-level stuff.

Clever, bizarre, self-referential, and wonderfully structured story from the same writer/director team that did Being John Malkovich. It's an apparently sensible adaption of Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief (a real book, despite having a touch of the S. Morgenstern to it), wrapped in the story of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman struggling to find a way of writing the film adaptation of same...until it goes totally off the rails, straying beyond the boundaries of the book, and into an off-kilter pseudo-thriller. Brilliant stuff.