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After years of making movies in the fringes of the Hollywood system after his debut success sex, lies, and videotape, director Steven Soderbergh made Schizopolis as, in his own words, an artistic "wake-up call to himself." The result is a discombobulated, irreverent, comedic meta-movie, a cinematic hall of mirrors nearly impossible to describe. Soderbergh wrote, directed, photographed, edited, and even stars in the film as Fletcher Munson, a disillusioned paper-pusher assigned to write a
Dec 31, 1996 Wide
Oct 30, 2003
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Exasperating as it is, Schizopolis has a deliberateness almost interesting enough to offset its sophomoric streak.
Schizopolis represents a minor act of self-indulgence on the part of the sometimes eccentric Steven Soderbergh but results in major tedium for the viewer.
It's fresh, unexpected and goofy. It's not a smart career move, just a film that its director wanted to make for some crazy reason, and he made it.
Though funny and observant at times, it still comes across as a strained juvenile guerilla movie whose bizarre antics never caught fire.
a filmmaking exercise from someone eager to stretch his legs, do something goofy, and experiment, all of which Soderbergh does without losing his audience
Soderbergh's "smallest" film is also one of his most personal and original, a biting satire of modern life and marriage that he wrote, directed, lensed, and starred in; though fractured and uneven, it's an underestimated work.
This transfer to DVD captures the look and feel of a small indie film well.
Taken as a whole, the film fails to maintain the consistent absurd tone it is aiming for.
At once an astute study of the banality of modern life and a banal student film wrapped around a series of inside jokes.
However, if there is a revelation in Schizopolis, it's Soderbergh himself, who proves, in his only acting role to date, to be an extremely gifted comedic actor.
moderately funny and seriously skewed
Schizopolis is by no means an epochal event, but it's clever and offbeat, well worth appreciating on its own proper terms.
Schizopolis is Steven Soderbergh's berserk and uneven attempt to mimic Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou; he wants to provoke reaction but he's not quite sure how to go about it.
A truly strange film, it makes no sense and makes total sense all at the same time. Steven Soderbergh, at the top of his game, handles directing, editing, scoring, camerawork and the lead role in this comedic oddity.
October 27, 2011Super Reviewer
A satire towards films that lean towards the pretentious; Schizopolis is a mishmash of a knowing of all things narrator, several different roles all portrayed by Steven Soderbergh, dubbing in three languages, bottomless elderly men, and a start and finish that will have you in peals of laughter. Mostly great for the
January 19, 2011Super Reviewer
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