With this alone, Soderburgh could have done really well. Farmiga is lovely, playing much the same as her "Autumn" role. But watching an actor act like an actor is a treat, especially when we have two guys who turn into actors and a slew of TeeVee people who are in front of cameras, but who don't know the moves. (He practices his proposal as if it were to be filmed - shades of "Taxi Driver" - plus his intended is reporter!) He uses a different set of moves than the visitors, and which are natural to the man, and are already common enough to be self-parodied. He plays someone who lives to be seen by a camera. Plus we have deNiro in a role that is more apt than any of his recent ones. These guys really move like East Europeans (like Liam in 'Schindler'), which starts out with a set of movements that is rare in film, and adds an unusual logic with a visual metaphor. What this film has is a very clever self-referential notion: another film about films, but one that directly indicts its own audience. Some films get extra points from me for ambition.
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