Money talks – loud enough, it could be the fourth wheel for the complex trio in the center Let them talk, The new Steven Soderbergh movie, which is currently streaming on HBO Max. Got a solid prototype of the movie. Three former college friends – Alice (Meryl Streep), Roberta (Candice Bergen), and Susan (Diane Wist) – reunite decades later on a sea liner, and then rejoice, then go up again. Occasion: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice, whose earlier works have been turned into a film And A TV series is set to collect a major literary prize in the UK. Only – her agent Karen (Gemma Chan) – she refuses to fly. So she goes by sea. Also, somewhere along the way, she decides that this trip will be a fun excuse to reunite with her friends, and whatever the outcome, it is not entirely clear. Reconciliation? Nostalgia? “I’m not going to be available” Alice says as the journey begins – your reconciliation is there. She picks up her nasty, wandering nephew Tyler (Lucas Hedges); Karan is also on board, but Alice is unaware of it. Still.
There are a lot of things these women still don’t know – i.e. about each other, the divisions that have developed between them. Roberta is the least successful of the clusters, with an obvious causal effect, which we will learn later. A ship full of wealth Her age has its advantages. Susan, meanwhile, feels that she is the least sophisticated of the group, and in fact, she’s more than just her dream eye for interesting details that evoke joy in fellow dreamers. Tyler is happy to be here – as long as a school student attraction can do something for him. Karen, Stowaway, wants to know when she’s going to hand in Alice’s latest book. Well, no: she’s hoping it’s really a money-making book.
Let them all talk Immerse yourself in all of this with a firm grip on the steering wheel. There are little mysteries in the game; Great ideas to be discussed; At a speed, from scene to scene, it is complex and full of conflict. All of this goes hand in hand, transcending a tone that feels relaxed. If anyone knows how to sit back and let the actors do this good, it’s Soderbergh. The film was produced, delayed by the director’s dynamic style, in a very short time (two weeks), real RMS Queen Mary2, With a script (the great Deborah Eisenberg wrote one, but Soderbergh & Co. relied largely on his vast exterior). This was unusual in its production: the director apparently “grabbed the camera in a wheelchair and rolled over,” Wist Said recently Entertainment Weekly.
This is the prototype of a freestyle, it is only a stranger to the fact that the film does not feel light or advanced and free on its feet, in the hands of this director, it may be. But of course there are pleasures, some of which – surprise, surprise, gave the title – some moments of sharp, screaming conversation. Soderbergh (now well-known, who edits his own films) has a knack for taking basic film grammar – to teach us where and how to be – and to use those tools to move scenes without any other hands being in a normal sluggish state. For the camera, the cast, and the invisible intellectual texts Soderbergh, I found that I did as little as I would like the screenplay. Soderbergh gets his mind set even in movies that fully wear the blanket of “just entertainment”.
Let them all talk Slightly sluggish than that, it spins its wheels unexpectedly frequently. But it’s interesting for all the pasta it forces against the wall – meanwhile, chewing dialogue and worthy ideas, meanwhile, shine about writing, about friendship, about experience. Bergen, in particular, is a delight. She wants to kill them, she wants to make you yearn, just imagine, she can wrap her arms around your neck.
She has plenty of opportunities to grow that mug here, and in a way, the character of Roberta, who has split from Alice and is dangerous, is the thread that holds this film together. What is the risk of a writer like Alice, the defensive defender of hysteria, borrowing from the lives of others, anyway? What is her responsibility for the impact this will have on the real lives of her friends? Don’t ask Alice. The film manages to entertain as well as inform. But Roberta – less successful than her friends, destroyed by divorce and bitter in a life borrowed, without compensation, for another woman’s art – could also star in this film version Friends with money. Money, more than anything, gives more than talk Let them talk Its rare fire scenes. For real blood and bold sulfur with the best comic player, good to see anywhere else in Soderbergh’s canon. Fortunately, we have been offered many more places to see.