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Although Full Frontal is packed with a top-notch cast (including Julia Roberts, David Duchovny, Mary McCormack, Catherine Keener, David-Hyde Pierce, Blair Underwood and the hilarious Nicky Katt), along with numerous cameos and movie in-jokes, this is not a self indulgent love letter to, or sensational expose of, Hollywood. Instead, it’s another Soderbergh film that puts personal and professional relationships (especially marriage, a common focus of Soderbergh’s films) under the microscope. Full Frontal is something of a companion piece to Sex, Lies and Videotape, but the difference here is Soderbergh is now the Hollywood insider, and the characters are all, in some way, linked to Hollywood. While Full Frontal isn’t as wildly experimental as something like Schizopolis, Soderbergh still has fun playing with film and digital video formats (Soderbergh, using the pseudonym ‘Peter Andrews’ was the film’s cinematographer) and overturning narrative (specifically, romantic) storytelling conventions.
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