{"id":5363,"date":"2002-10-17T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2002-10-17T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stefandevries.com\/movies\/2002\/10\/17\/full-frontal\/"},"modified":"2002-10-17T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2002-10-17T12:00:33","slug":"telepopmusik-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/2002\/10\/17\/telepopmusik-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Frontal"},"content":{"rendered":"

USA 2002 (101′)- Dir.: Steven Soderbergh. With Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood. | My rating:\"1 | Official site<\/a> | \"dvd\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Steven Soderbergh is without a doubt one of Hollywood’s most talented directors. Out of Sight and Traffic were his best, but Full Frontal is definitely his worst (although I haven’t seen Schizopolis). In the marketing campaign the main focus was on the fact that the film had a budget of only 2 million dollar, was shot on DV (which is only partly true, at least a third is filmed on 35mm), and that the actors had to bring their own clothes and make-up. Contrary to many other low-budget films, this is not a selling point. Full Frontal looks like a cheap shitty film. You wonder where the hell they spent these 2 million dollars on. Not on a DP, and not on a decent screenplay, that’s for sure.
\nIt is so bad that I actually can’t even tell you what’s it about. It’s a kind of reality video about a film in film that is a documentary about an actor. Do you get it? In one of the scenes there is a man who suffocates in a plastic bag while masturbating. I was not the only one<\/a> to notice that this scene was a metaphore for the whole film…<\/p>\n

There is a an upside on this film however, at least for me. I seem to have more in common with Steven Soderbergh than just my first name. A big part of the film was shot in Red<\/span><\/a>, a fancy place on Beverly Blvd in LA, where I used to have my breakfast until it closed down last April (by the way: where art thou now, charming waitress Katherine?). The video-to-film transfer was done by FotoKem<\/span><\/a>, the place where my first 35mm short Cold Turkey<\/span><\/a> was developed. Soderbergh then edited the film entirely on Final Cut Pro<\/span><\/a>, just like me. Oh! And I once formed part of the Very Happy Few To Have Julia Roberts’ private cell phone number (although I cannot disclose how I got that number in the first place). I am almost just like Steven (may I call you Steven, Steven?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA 2002 (101′)- Dir.: Steven Soderbergh. With Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood. | My rating: | Official site |…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[280,392,638],"class_list":{"0":"post-5363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-movies","7":"tag-final_cut_pro","8":"tag-julia_roberts","9":"tag-steven_soderbergh","10":"cs-entry","11":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}