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May 10, 2005
Soderbergh: less interesting than interested?
In Libération, under the headline "Soderbergh, the merchant," Olivier Seguret offers a jaundiced, French view of Stephen Soderbergh's 2929 deal to make a half-dozen pictures on HD, noting that the costs of publicity are often half the budgets of U.S. movies. A 1985 gesture by Eric Rohmer, Seguret believes was "prophetic" when he allowed his Rayon vert (released in the U.S. as Summer) to play on pay channel Canal + the day before it premiered in theaters. He finds the American to be more producer than auteur in his piece, concluding: "A certain innocence differentiated this gesture from that of Soderbergh: it was much more interesting than interested."
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