Sunday, December 09, 2007
QUARTET
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Steven Soderbergh's
It is a talky film with a lot of neat effects.
People talk on the phone and the sound is natural, not tinny. It is as though they are in the same room and I bet they were when they filmed it.
The windows are always filmy with stuff like traffic happening beyond them.
There are dart boards in two of the four places. Huh? There are a lot of plants.
There are some nice cuts.
The people are not as much fun to watch.
I don't much like James Spader and Andy McDowell.
Peter Gallagher is fine and Laura San Giacomo steals every scene as a bad sister.
It is very good but not as good as it thinks that it is.
I don't think Soderbergh has ever matched it but that is not much the point.
Incidentally, this is one of those films that I remembered in black and white.
I still haven't figured out why that happens.
I will give it a 45 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films
