{"id":125501,"date":"2020-12-03T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/soderbergh-at-sea-film\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T20:00:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:00:54","slug":"soderbergh-at-sea-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/soderbergh-at-sea-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Soderbergh At Sea \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Soderbergh At Sea \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Can you even imagine going on a cruise again? I\u2019m sure some people are perfectly fine with the idea \u2013 heck, some people would be willing to go right now, this very second, if they could. But here in the age of the coronavirus, cruises seem like floating\u00a0Petri dishes; isolated barges with no escape. Which makes Steven Soderbergh<\/strong>\u2018s curious\u00a0Let Them All Talk<\/em><\/strong> already feel weirdly dated. It\u2019s set in a world where people gather freely, maskless, throwing their cares to the wind. They board a huge ship and take to the sea. It\u2019s almost surreal at this point.<\/p>\n

Anticipating all of this, Soderbergh is quick to tell us up front that the entire film is set in 2019. That\u2019s only a year ago. And yet\u2026you can\u2019t help being distracted by how different the world of the film seems.\u00a0Another thing that makes Soderbergh\u2019s latest so distinguishable: it\u2019s unapologetically low-stakes. Here is a film where friends gather, converse, occasionally air old grievances. But there\u2019s no ticking clock. No doomsday device. No special effects. I\u2019d almost forgotten you could still make movies<\/a> like that.
\nAuthor\u00a0Alice Hughes (Meryl Streep<\/strong>) is struggling to pen her next book. Her new literary agent Karen (Gemma Chan<\/strong>) would\u00a0really<\/em> like Alice to write a sequel to one of her most popular tomes \u2013 but Alice doesn\u2019t seem interested. She\u2019s cagey and stand-offish about the whole thing. She\u2019s also due to accept an award in England, but she stresses that she\u00a0can\u2019t<\/em> fly. Karen has a solution: she\u2019ll book Alice on the QE2<\/em>, and Alice can ride the ship from New York to the UK. And along the way, she can\u00a0also<\/em> work on her new book.<\/p>\n

Alice goes for the idea, with a stipulation: she wants to bring guests. Those guests include two of her college friends, Roberta (Candice Bergen<\/strong>) and Susan (Dianne Wiest<\/strong>). Alice also brings along her nephew Tyler (Lucas Hedges<\/strong>). And, while Alice doesn\u2019t know it, Karen is coming along too, to keep tabs on the difficult author and make sure she\u2019s churning out her manuscript<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once at sea it becomes clear that the dear old friends aren\u2019t as friendly as we might have thought. Alice barely spends any time with them \u2013 she says she has to work, after all. And Roberta is harboring a grudge. She\u2019s convinced that a character in one of Alice\u2019s books was based on her \u2013 and she wasn\u2019t alone in that assumption. In fact, the book directly broke up Roberta\u2019s marriage and, in her eyes, ruined her life. As a result, she gives Alice the cold shoulder every chance she gets. So why come on the cruise at all? Soderbergh gets to that. Eventually.<\/p>\n

Let Them All Talk<\/em> is in no rush. It moves at the same sort of drifting pace as an ocean liner, lumbering along, taking its time.\u00a0Deborah Eisenberg<\/strong>\u2018s script (which was apparently more of a loose story outline that the cast riffed on) isn\u2019t interested in big dramatic confrontations. Any time one seems about to rear its ugly head, the film changes to the subject. The same goes for the potential for a kind of screwball romance between Tyler and Karen. The lit agent ropes the nephew into helping with her scheme, and Tyler, clearly smitten, is happy to go along. All the pieces are in place. But\u00a0Let Them All Talk<\/em> isn\u2019t interested in putting them together.<\/p>\n

This all results in a truly curious film. While the low-stakes approach is refreshing and even novel in this day and age, it also results in a listless journey. It helps that Soderbergh has a crackerjack cast at his disposal. Streep\u2019s Alice comes across and cold and aloof at first, but there\u2019s more to her than meets the eye, and it allows the acclaimed performer to do great stuff with Alice\u2019s inner workings. We can see the gears turning behind her eyes.
\nBergen and Wiest are both a hoot as the friends, with Bergen\u2019s Roberta given much more to do, playing up Roberta\u2019s bitterness. Weist\u2019s Susan feels oddly underused \u2013 until a late scene gives her a wonderful little speech about stars and satellites that she delivers perfectly. Hedges is delightful as the doting, lovesick nephew, while Chan\u2019s lit agent seems like the most grounded individual in the group.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0Let Them All Talk<\/em> finally reaches its destination, it feels like another Soderbergh experiment. He literally took his cast on a cruise for the flick \u2013 shooting for two weeks with his cast improvising whenever they could. The journey is enjoyable \u2013 but oddly forgettable. It\u2019s like a quick vacation that immedia<\/a>tely starts to fade from memory the moment you return.<\/p>\n

\/Film rating: 7 out of 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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