Word: soderbergh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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directed by Steven Soderbergh...
...that sequence Steven Soderbergh, working territory far removed from his sex, lies, and videotape, efficiently reveals the sweet blend of imagination and practicality that animates his principal character and the sympathetic yet unsentimental approach with which he will recount his subsequent adventures...
WRITER AND DIRECTOR: STEVEN SODERBERGH...
...Soderbergh's adaptation of A.E. Hotchner's novel-memoir is episodic, and that mutes the melodrama inherent in Aaron's encounters with crime, illness and loss. Aaron must improvise his response to events without fully understanding them, and that comes closer to the truth about boyhood than most movies do. It was a directorial mistake to bathe the images in a soft glow. But that visual error is not compounded psychologically. The film has a tough core, and in a time when movies about the troubles of little boys are a sentimental subgenre and dysfunction is being too easily overcome...
KAFKA. In his first film since sex, lies, and videotape, Steven Soderbergh serves up a flimsy whodunit starring Kafka (played by Jeremy Irons, the male Meryl). It's a film-school movie, with devices lifted from The Third Man: vertiginous staircases, malevolence glistening off the cobblestones, a madman's drool caught in the Prague moonlight. As someone murmurs, "All a bit much, don't you think?" Yes, pity -- and not nearly enough...