8:00 PM, 1st April, 2003
Writer-director Steven Soderbergh follows up Ocean's 11 with the low-budget Full Frontal, his first digitally shot film. Touted as an unofficial sequel to his 1989 hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape, this arty film-within-a-film (shot in just 18 days) revolves around seven people with little in common whose lives collide.
Full Frontal will confuse a lot of viewers. Its look at Los Angeles movie-industry culture has a way of telescoping further and further outward. Soderbergh shot much of the film on digital video, giving it a harsh, washed-out look, and used many of the visual techniques that won him the Oscar for Best Director on Traffic.
After you see Full Frontal, you will most likely be thankful that you didn't really pay for it; a few days later, you will probably come to feel like you enjoyed it. The mixture of fantasy and fantasy was the key. Oh, and Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood, David Duchovny, Brad Pitt (cameoing as himself), David Hyde Pierce, Catherine Keener, and Terence Stamp also give you extra reasons to come along. And besides, if you are a member of the Group then you obviously like movies, so what better way to express it than to see the 'movie about movies for people who love movies'.
Tamara Lee