Full Frontal - by Steven Soderbergh (2002)

A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.
Arty film-within-a-film revolves around seven people with little in common whose lives collide.
As the credits roll on Steven Soderbergh's "Full Frontal," which opens in selected cities Friday, a plaintive but urgent song called "Do Something Real" plays over the scroll. It is performed by Bob Pollard and Doug Gillard and written by Pollard, the lead voice in the Dayton, Ohio, cult band Guided by Voices, Soderbergh's favorite group.
It wasn't his affection for the band that led Soderbergh to afford the song such prominence, however; it was his film's affinity with both the message and aesthetic of the song.
"I've attempted to shoehorn GBV songs in my other movies, but they ended up not working," he says. "But this was perfect, because `Full Frontal' is the cinematic equivalent to that garage-band ethos. It's me blowing out the pipes, working fast, dirty and real. No overdubs or sweetening. Just the straight stuff."
Since the conception of "Full Frontal," there has been no shortage of misconceptions about the director's latest project. Soderbergh himself was partly responsible, casually referring to it in interviews he did for his 2001 hit "Ocean's Eleven" as a sequel to his breakthrough debut, "sex, lies, and videotape." It isn't, though it does address some of the same issues of intimacy and commitment.
Then Julia Roberts called it "my little nudie movie," though neither she nor anybody else is naked in it. And there was the original title, "How to Survive a Hotel Room Fire," which was only metaphorical and had to be changed anyway after the events of 9/11.
But perhaps the biggest misconception is that "Full Frontal," shot mostly on hand-held digital cameras using natural sound, …


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Run time: ~ 101 min

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