Full Frontal (2002)Movies

Movies from Film Forum, 08/08/02Director Steven Soderbergh has compiled an eclectic repertoire of high-profile hits like Traffic, Out of Sight, and Ocean's 11, and low-profile arthouse favorites including The Limey, King of the Hill, and sex, lies, and videotape. Now he has taken an idea that would usually be an obscure art film only seen by film students and filled it with stars such as Julia Roberts and David Duchovny. The result is Full Frontal, a movie intent on confounding viewer expectations. Its experimental spirit is so audacious, in fact, that even the critics who usually applaud his every move are bewildered.Full Frontal tells the story of the making of a movie, and also shows us a good deal of that movie. Conversations take place in and around the project, challenging viewers to...