Director Steven Soderbergh plays cinematic amaneunsis to Spalding Gray, putting down on film one of the latter's long-winded stage monologues. Subject: eye trouble. Or in short: the verbal equivalent of the razored eyeball at the beginning of Un Chien Andalou, except that the torture lasts infinitely longer and you cannot shut your eyes to it. (The preludial collection of noncelebrity interviews -- such as the woman who put Super Glue in her eyes in the mistaken belief it was eye drops -- is the most painful part.) The moviemaking is not lazy -- lots of changes of background, lighting, and camera position -- but it still does not make a movie. (1997) — Duncan Shepherd
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