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| 2005 NYFF Films Introduction Good Night, and Good Luck Regular Lovers The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Methadonia L'Enfant (The Child) Bubble The Squid and the Whale I Am Capote Something Like Happiness Sympathy for Lady Vengeance Manderlay Tale of Cinema Breakfast on Pluto Through the Forest The President's Last Bang Who's Camus Anyway? Three Times Paradise Now Tristram Shandy Gabrielle The Sun The Passenger Cache (Hidden) | Bubble Stephen Soderbergh, USA, 2005, 72 min.  Soderbergh is highly effective in new territory with Bubble, a low-budget film about three working-class people in a doll factory a sort of love triangle, in a way and a crime. It doesnıt seem as if heıs taken any Ameican movies as obvious models, though some of the conventions of a police procedural take over toward the end. The images shot in HD of the factory, the houses, roads and people of Ohio and West Virginia seem taken from the 1970ıs and 1980ıs work of still photographers like Robert Adams, or more especially from Lee Friedlanderıs Factory Valleys. Debbie Doebereiner (Martha), Dustin James Ashley (Kyle), and Misty Dawn Wilkins (Rose) come from West Virginia and Ohio where the action happens. Decker Moody (Detective Don) is a West Virginia police detective. Coleman Hough, who wrote the screenplay, has kept it naive and simple. When a man learns his daughter is in jail for murder, he says, "Oh, I see." You might contrast the arch cleverness applied to simple people working in a nowhere Walmart-like store in Miguel Artetaıs The Good Girl, with Jennifer Anniston and Jake Gyllenhaal playing naïve. These people in Bubble just are. Their naivety carries a lived conviction, and the murder that happens is like lots of murders that donıt make it to the screen, where the perpetrators are people the victim trusted and themselves donıt know how it all happened. The Village Voice called Bubble "aggressively disorienting in its banality," but taken on its own terms, it works. Deft manipulation of the non-actors and attractive but understated use of the HD photography are important factors in the filmıs economy and success. This could be a good series if Soderbergh can go on in this regional vein at the same level. (Chris Knipp) |
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