Full Frontal
Chance Meetings. Steamy Interludes. Sizzling Secrets.
Academy Award winner Julia Roberts (Best Actress, Erin Brockovich), David Duchovny (The X-Files) and Blair Underwood (Rules Of Engagement) star in another acclaimed triumph from Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Best Director, Traffic). It's a chaotic day for seven strangers from Hollywood who end up at the birthday party of a mutual friend. Before the night is over, relationships are tested, hearts are broken and passions are renewed! Also starring David Hyde Pierce (TV's Frasier), Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), Mary McCormack (K-Pax) and Nicky Katt (Insomnia).
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An Art Film - zaakistan
Steven Soderbergh delivers a somewhat cryptic art film that only the most interested viewer would probably enjoy.
The focus is a group of people in the Los Angeles area who are connected to the film industry. When a marriage begins to fall apart, an interview between the hottest black actor begins, a job is lost, a play on the verge of a flop, an internet date getting primmed, and a birthday party scheduled for that night, everything blurs between reality and entertainment.
I can't say that I was able to follow all of the ins and outs, so I'll probably watch the film again as I've thoroughly loved all of the other Soderbergh films I've watched in the past (Che, Traffic, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, The Good German, Bubble, Ocean's Eleven, etc.).This party's a flop - SPSullivan
The biggest crime committed by "Full Frontal" is not that it's bad, but that it's just so boring. In attempting a digitally-shot, indie-type movie with a big name cast, Soderbergh seems to have forgotten that that simple gimmick, in of itself, is not enough to sustain interest. As such, we are subjected to a day in the life of a collection of rather tedious characters, from stereotypical sadsack Carl to his apparently schizophrenic wife Linda. One of the picture's chief conceits is that it includes footage shot in digital plus some captured on traditional 35mm. The latter are intended to be scenes taken from a movie, "Rendezvous", starring the characters played by Roberts and Underwood. But this film-within-a-film is so hokey and uninteresting that all it really serves to do is to remind us why the digital medium is best used sparingly, in appropriate pictures. Digital helps to emphasise stark, gritty, bare-bones reality, but when your movie is set amidst the glitter and phoniness of Hollywood, its employ becomes almost oxymoronic. "Full Frontal" is not a total loss, though. Nicky Katt is hilarious as an idiosyncratic actor playing Hitler, in scenes which could have been lifted out of "The Producers". And McCormack delivers a very natural performance as insecure Lee, the only particularly believable character in the entire script.Not one of Steven Soderbergh best - Patz
This movie is not really bad but it's far from being good either. Steven Soderbergh tried to make a movie inside a movie about the movies industry. It came out one of those movies which are interesting but not fun to watch. If you'll force yourself to sit through it you'll get some satisfaction out of it but... Altman did it better with the Actor.
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An Art Film - zaakistan
Steven Soderbergh delivers a somewhat cryptic art film that only the most interested viewer would probably enjoy.
The focus is a group of people in the Los Angeles area who are connected to the film industry. When a marriage begins to fall apart, an ...This party's a flop - SPSullivan
The biggest crime committed by "Full Frontal" is not that it's bad, but that it's just so boring. In attempting a digitally-shot, indie-type movie with a big name cast, Soderbergh seems to have forgotten that that simple gimmick, in of itself, is not enough ...Not one of Steven Soderbergh best - Patz
This movie is not really bad but it's far from being good either. Steven Soderbergh tried to make a movie inside a movie about the movies industry. It came out one of those movies which are interesting but not fun to watch. If you'll force yourself to sit ...