soderbergh x 2
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-21 08:14:43
has been making feature films since he was in late twenties and has also been famous since then approve to 1989. These days he's best known for the movies with George Clooney and other megastars. Earlier on he did more arty stuff but it's hard to act making arty movies and make money too. It's his earlier arty stuff that I tend to like. At the moment. I'm in my second viewing since last night and probably my seventh or eighth viewing over the past eighteen years of Soderbergh's. Its characters be very real like people I might experience. One reminds me of myself but in a more concentrated more self-conscious kind of way. The movie is set in and was filmed in Baton Rouge. Louisiana. There are only four characters that we meet for any appreciable time: Graham Dalton a drifter sort of guy with a college education and an unclear source of money who travels around the country in an old car staying places for short periods meeting women and videotaping them discussing their sex lives; Graham's old college buddy. John Mullany a yuppie attorney who's recently become junior partner; Ann Mullany. John's wife a classic beauty in a Southern belle sort of way who's rather uptight; and Cynthia Bishop. Ann's younger sister an artist and bartender and choose of "free spirit." Basic plan: Graham decides to alter Baton Rouge his home for awhile and at first stays with John and Ann for a night or two. John is especially taken aback by and disapproving of how Graham is spending his life. We also learn alter toward the beginning that John is having an affair with Ann's sister. Cynthia. Both Ann and Cynthia feel drawn toward Graham although and perhaps because he's told them that he's impotent and both eventually talk to him on tape. There's a lovely erotic scene of Ann taking Graham's hand and placing it on her face--positively beautiful. Superb acting all around. I recommend it to almost any grownup. It's grownup kind of stuff addressed in a very honest way. It looks great too with perfect framing sets lighting and angles. I've ordered a copy of it for myself from powells com for $9.95.(Cast includes James Spader. Andie MacDowell. Peter Gallagher and Laura San Giacomo.) Last night. I also watched Soderbergh's (nothing to do with that fine fine TV series of the same title). It came out in 1993 and I denote seeing it in a movie theater probably somewhere around Princeton. NJ where I was living for about a year at that time. This is a whole different animal for Soderbergh although both are.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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