The top 10 Steven Soderbergh films since his retirement
With The Insider, the American director released his 10th film since he … stopped his career!
The Insiderreleased this Wednesday is his second film in two months. And yet, Steven Soderbergh was supposed to be retired … right?
Back in 2012. The American filmmaker, who has filmed films since his Palme d’Or in 1989, Sex, lies and videois worn out by the profession. He then announced his intention to withdraw from the cinema. “”When you get to a point where you say to yourself : ‘If I have to get into a van to make another location, I’m going to shoot myself, it’s time to let someone else make the idea of getting into the van …“He explains, saying wishing to devote himself to other artistic activities, such as painting. His last project was to be My life with Liberacefilmed in the summer of 2012, with Michael Douglas in the role of flamboyant pianist Liberace, selected in competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Soderbergh’s retirement was in fact short -lived, since as early as 2014, we found his name in the credits of the series The Knick. And he returned to the cinema in 2017 with Logan Lucky. More stakhanovist than ever, he has since shot nine other films. The Insiderwith Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett, has just released in theaters in France, barely over a month after the horror film Presence. While waiting for the rest (he is already on the set of the next one), first had fun classifying the ten films he made during what is undoubtedly the most prolific retreat in the history of cinema.
10. Magic Mike: Last dance (2023)
Third and last part of the trilogy with (the abs) Channing Tatum, after a second opus that Soderbergh had been content to produce. Salma Hayek flashes on Mike and wins in her luggage in London to set up a play. The flesh is sad, the plot is zero. When he does not shoot small prototype films, Soderbergh exploits his house franchises (Ocean’s 8the series The Girlfriend Experience…). Not what is more exciting.
9. High Flying Bird (2019)
An ultra-documented dive behind the scenes of the NBA and the sport business, where fiction is interspersed with real players-an idea developed at the time of Strategistanother film of sports behind the scenes (those of baseball), which Soderbergh had to shoot, but which he finally abandoned in Bennett Miller. Filmed at the iPhone 7 (as Paranoia), the film affirms the style that is both refrigerant and immersive of Soderbergh new way. The very critical subject on professional basketball may be very interesting, but the austerity of the device and the dialog tunnels still cause a lot of boredom.
8. The Laundromat: The Panama Papers affair (2019)
The second of his two Netflix films of 2019, after High Flying Bird. The Panama Papers explained in a sarcastic-pedago tone. The actors (Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas) have fun, we understand everything in the case, the subject is soderberghissime (the impact of ultra-liberalism on our daily lives) but the film ends up getting lost in anecdotal sketches and leaves the memory of a sub-subThe Big Short.
7. The big crossing (2020)
Always looking for a new technical and artistic challenge, Soderbergh shot this film for two weeks of a crossing of the Atlantic, aboard the liner Queen Mary 2, with the real passengers and the crew as extras. It is an allegory of creation, of the conflict between the imperatives of art and those of trade, with a superstar author (Meryl Streep) as an alter-ego of the filmmaker, who openly evokes her eternal tightness between taste for experimentation and need to hit the box-office. A Cruise has fun Intello, quite charming. But undoubtedly to be reserved for the most fierce soderberghophiles.
6. Logan Lucky (2017)
The film of the return after the real-Fausse retirement. An Ocean’s Eleven in the countryside, a little rusty in terms of the mechanics of the breakage film, but very pleasant on that of Hang-out moviefilm of well -drawn characters with which we like to spend time. Channing Tatum in Papa prolo with a big heart, Daniel Craig in peroxidized chests pierce, Riley Keough foot on the floor… Film Flâner, Pure Pleasure, on the beloved air of Take Me Home, Country Roadsby John Denver.
5. The Insider (2025)
A small British espionage film on a couple of loving secret agents trying to mix conjugality and duplicity, a kind of Mr and MRS SMITH Without fighting, a Sex, lies and video at Mi6. Elegant, aerial, concise, fun … But so chic and distant that it takes the risk of appearing a little vain. Ideal in any case for fifth place in this top.
4. No Sudden Move (2021)
Detroit, 1954: a family in all respects is taken hostage by three gangsters … From a minimalist argument Hostage houseSoderbergh and the screenwriter Ed Solomon (his accomplice of the series Mosaic) question over this retro polar racism in Michigan of fifties, the monstrous ramifications of organized crime and the omnipotence of the omnipotence of the omnipotence of the omnipotence of the omnipotence of Big Business in America. The film ends less hard than it begins, but, in its best times, No Sudden Move find accents at the Elmore Leonard. Appreciates like a side B, delayed, of Out of reach.
3. Presence (2025)
A haunted house film told from the point of view of the spectrum. Not very operating on the plane of the scruss, the film strikes with the sadness of its observation on the existential distress of the American bourgeoisie, the melancholy of its sequence plans sweeping from the gaze, from the beyond, the opulent but desolate home where the action takes place. A film that remains in the lead after the screening. Who haunts a little, yes.
2. Kimi (2022)
A computer scientist Agoraphobe (Zoë Kravitz), who never leaves her Seattle loft, sees her life too orderly deregulate when she falls on the audio index of a crime, lost in the middle of the data flows of a spell with voice command named Kimi … a Secret conversation Updaté for our ultra-connected and ultra-confined world, portrayed in an exhilarating mixture of technophile voyeurism, artisanal rope and laconic elegance. Led at full speed (duration: 1h29), an irresistible small film.
1. Paranoia (2018)
The real great Kafkaïen film of the director of Kafka. The brilliant Claire Foy finds herself locked in a psychiatric asylum, where she finds that one of the nurses strangely resembles the stalker who harassed her when she was outside … working to immerse the spectator as much as possible at the heart of the action (a path he will take again in the series Full Circle), Soderbergh is also comfortable in the critical look at the perverse effects of capitalism interfering in the smallest corners of our psyche, as in pure popcorn pleasure. Mid worries worried, half enthusiast cunning.
