Full frontal

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Movie
German title Full frontal
Original title Full frontal
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Steven Soderbergh
script Coleman Hough
production Gregory Jacobs ,
Scott Kramer
music Jacques Davidovici
camera Steven Soderbergh (as Peter Andrews)
cut Sarah Flack
occupation

Voll Frontal (original title: Full Frontal ) is a film by the US director Steven Soderbergh from 2002. The viewer follows a huge, colorful collection of loosely connected people through a single day, at the end of which all protagonists at the birthday party for the film producer Gus. These internally torn types - an actor couple, a journalist and his wife, a Hollywood executive, her sister, and others - are introduced through photographs. During voice-over interviews, they report on themselves, the other participants and other contexts.

action

The actress Francesca plays a journalist who writes a story about the actor Calvin, who has a relationship with Lee, whose sister Linda, a healing masseuse , is tempted by top Hollywood producer Gus, while Lee's husband Carl has problems with an actor . There is also Carl, the editor of a tabloid magazine , who can't stand his boss and is fired, but loves his wife Lee more than anything, but she wants to leave him. It's also about Lee's sister Linda, whose longest relationship lasted three months and who deals with her self-diagnosed inability to relate with Internet flirtation. And it's about the colored series star Calvin, who finally made it to Hollywood and plays Nicholas - an actor about whom the reporter Francesca is writing a cover story. Francesca is played by Catherine and the film is produced by Gus, a self-loving neurotic who will celebrate his 40th birthday that evening with everyone involved.

production

It is Steven Soderbergh's third film with actress Julia Roberts , but she fits into a large cast of actors, including Catherine Keener , Nicky Katt , Blair Underwood , David Duchovny , Mary McCormack and David Hyde Pierce . Brad Pitt and film director David Fincher have guest appearances . The screenplay comes from the writer Coleman Hough , camera was directed by Steven Soderbergh himself under his usual pseudonym Peter Andrews .

Incorporated into the film are several postmodern traits such as a fictional storyline, multiple references to Soderbergh's earlier film The Limey  (1999), a triple illusion inversion (a film within the film within the film), false opening titles and an open, broken ending.

The production conditions are also remarkable: Soderbergh, who already paid  low fees for his film Ocean's Eleven (2001) and kept the production very cheap, not only shot on digital video with a handheld camera and paid minimal fees for this project, but even waived one Costume and make-up department as well as catering. The actors were encouraged to take care of these matters themselves. They were shot in just 18 days.

criticism

The film received mixed reviews overall. At Rotten Tomatoes, 38% of reviews were positive out of a total of 142 reviews.

In the Chicago Sun-Times , critic Roger Ebert wrote that Full Frontal was "so amateur that only the professionalism of a few actors makes it worth watching." Richard Roeper said it was "like just watching the special DVD without actually seeing the movie".

USA Today gave the film 3 out of 4 stars for its humor and good cast.

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/groups/success-stories-full-frontal
  2. ^ Aaron Baker "Steven Soderbergh", Verlag Contemporary Film Directors 2011, ISBN 0-252-03605-0
  3. ^ Full Frontal (2002). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed November 8, 2014 .
  4. ^ Roger Ebert : Full Frontal. Movie review. Chicago Sun-Times , August 2, 2002, accessed June 10, 2009 : "a film so amateurish that only the professionalism of some of the actors makes it watchable."
  5. ^ Richard Roeper: Full Frontal. (No longer available online.) In: Ebert and Roeper. August 2, 2002, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 10, 2009 (English, quote available on the website Full Frontal at Rotten Tomatoes ): "Full Frontal is like the 'Special Features' disc of the DVD without the original movie."
  6. ↑ Claudia Puig: Full Frontal exposes humor, not much skin . In: USA Today . August 2, 2002, accessed June 10, 2009 .