Let Them All Talk (2020)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
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What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Let Them All Talk is sort of the median product between Christopher Guest’s improv comedies (I think Best in Show is my favorite) and Soderbergh’s crisply directed mid-tier work like The Informant! and Logan Lucky .
Like so much of his recent work, from “Logan Lucky” and “Unsane” to the more commercially viable “Magic Mike” and “The Knick,” he’s a filmmaker interested in genre tropes to a certain degree, beyond which he’s not interested at all, unless they’re used to support character and peculiar, telling comic details.
The best moments in Soderbergh’s filmography are the warmest (the “Take Me Home, Country Roads” scene in Logan Lucky , the Bellagio fountain scenes in the Ocean’s trilogy), though never at the cost of ignoring the thornier parts of the stories he’s telling.
Since stepping away from directing, he’s made such projects as The Knick , Logan Lucky , Unsane , and High Flying Bird .
Try refreshing your browser, or Film review: With Kimi, Soderbergh leans into a late-pandemic vibe Back to video Then in 2019 he shot Let Them All Talk aboard the Queen Mary 2, releasing it a year later when we were all terrified of travel (especially on ocean liners) but desperate to remember those good old days.
Ah, but we’re getting into the weeds of the thing before we look at the seeds of the thing, i.e., the latest semi-experimental film from the prolific and wondrous mind of Steven Soderbergh, who in the last few years alone has delivered the psychological horror gem “Unsane,” the sports drama “High Flying Bird,” the social satire “The Laundromat,” the cruise ship comedy/drama “Let Them All Talk” and the period-piece crime thriller “No Sudden Move.”
But that’s part of the easy confidence of Soderbergh’s approach, a particular hallmark of this pandemic-era creative burst of his – Kimi follows 2020’s semi-improvised comedy Let Them All Talk and 2021’s crime fare No Sudden Move , all shot with Covid restrictions in place.
The film, one of the many projects Soderbergh’s been churning out for the streaming world after a brief retirement in 2016 (“No Sudden Move,” “Let Them All Talk” and “Unsane” among them), does fall into pat thriller trappings in the third act; until then, Angela and her dark past and phobias make for a great character study atop the data mining side of big tech.
The director is mixing in the cameras he often uses, including what I would assume is an iPhone, something that Soderbergh has used for his last films High Flying Bird and Let Them All Talk .
This is to say that “Kimi,” on HBO Max, is very good – but so was last year’s “No Sudden Move” (HBO Max), and 2019’s “High Flying Bird” (Netflix), and, to a lesser degree, 2020’s “Let Them All Talk” (HBO Max), and 2019’s “The Laundromat” (Netflix).