Full Frontal

[@VicenteTorresAliasVits]

Not even Blair Underwood and Catherine Keener's performances can save FULL FRONTAL, a movie about what happens to a bunch of people who work in Hollywood hours before a mutual friend's birthday. It feels like more thought was put onto choosing the different aesthetics that are used based on the characters' point of view (basically, the lower the quality of the image, the more realistic the representation of the world) than creating the characters themselves, because none of them are interesting. Also, whether it's the length of each scene or the moments that mark each transition, there's no flow when it comes to the jumps from one subplot to the other. One of those subplots starts with the opening credits on the corner of the screen. There's enough context to understand that all those names are fake, and therefore, that it's a movie-within-the-movie. And, bafflingly, this is treated as a twist around the halfway point. What's even weirder is that the conclusion of this subplot is presented as a parody of a cheesy romantic movie made by a big studio, even though every other scene with this duo (or with just one of them) was relatively serious. 4/10

[@writerstevens]

If this had been his first movie, would you have watched another? Also, curious, where does one access director's comments in this day and age? How? You guys still have CD players?

[@TheFilmographersPodcast]

They can be hard to find! Most times, we track down DVDs on eBay, which is what we did with Full Frontal.