It’s another vague humanist exercise that offers vague humanist insights into contemporary life Content:įULL FRONTAL is a rather pointless, forgettable cinematic meditation on movie theory, the ways of Hollywood, and the erratic vagaries of human relationships.
This bizarre, annoying, pretentious shooting style is used to produce a kind of character study of some people associated with the movie industry in Los Angeles, California. The scenes of the real people are shot in really cheap, murky, washed out videotape, while the scenes of the movie are shot in nice, crisp color.
This complex ensemble piece shifts between scenes of the “real people” and scenes of the movie starring the characters that Julia Roberts and Blair Underwood play. A couple sub-plots with several other characters fill out the plot. The writer of the movie, played by David Hyde Pierce, is having marital difficulties with his peripatetic, depressed wife, played by Catherine Keener. In this movie within a movie within a movie, Julia Roberts plays an actress performing in a romantic movie where she’s a reporter doing a piece on a black actor, played by Blair Underwood, who’s performing in an action movie with Brad Pitt.
FULL FRONTAL is a rather pointless, forgettable cinematic meditation on movie theory, the ways of Hollywood, and the erratic vagaries of human relationships.
