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| Gramercy Pictures (I) | Release Date: April 28, 1995 |
Starring:
Elisabeth Shue, Peter Gallagher
Summary:
A recovering gambling addict returns to his Texas home only to find trouble and temptation when he rekindles his relationship with his ex-wife.
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Soderbergh's sleekly malignant Underneath is a nasty little winner. [28 April 1995, p.81]
Soderbergh pretty much failed in trying to evoke a noir-like nightmare world in the 1919 Prague of "Kafka," his 1991 terror film. But here, he dazzlingly hews out a noir landscape in more unlikely territory: modern-day Austin, Texas. [28 April 1995]
Soderbergh soaks the screen in moody, swimming pool hues to suggest the characters' murky motivations, and uses different textures of film stock to distinguish between the multiple layers of flashback. [28 April 1995, p.N44]
From a purely cinematic standpoint, The Underneath is Soderbergh's most daring work yet, full of elliptical flashbacks and fast-forwards; ominous camera angles and cinematic tricks. But Soderbergh's movies (sex, lies and videotape, Kafka, King of the Hill) have always been cunningly smart, and The Underneath is not. [28 April 1995, p.5G]
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