BUBBLE

I have been looking forward to Steven Soderbergh's latest film for a long time. His method, on this film, of working with non-actors and shooting digital, setting it around a doll factory...sounded perfect. I loved Full Frontal, and Coleman was the screenwriter on that one as well.

Bubble isn't great. It's moody and Soderbergh's camera work and direction are perfect. The acting (by non-actors) is interesting and the sadness of their lives is very well presented. The problem is the obnoxious acoustic guitar (and I'm a HUGE Guided by Voices fan), the cheezy religious images, especially the "blue light" effects, and the fact that the story/characters are never fully realized. It's a traditional crime plot based film that wants you to care about characters.

I wanted to love it.