Before Sundance exploded into a huge film industry event, it was the place where a new wave of indie filmmakers started their careers in the late ’80s and early ’90s. One of those filmmakers was Steven Soderbergh, whose first feature film “Sex, Lies and Videotape” premiered in the 1989 Sundance Film Festival and won an audience award, before going on to also win the Palme d’Or and FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes, and even getting an Oscar nomination for the film’s script. Three decades later, Soderbergh is revisiting his hit drama with a sequel and bringing along Andie MacDowell and Laura San Giacomo.
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During a recent interview with Filmmaker Magazine, Soderbergh discussed his latest film, “Let Them All Talk,” and the script to his “Sex, Lies and Videotape” sequel he wrote while on lockdown. “When I thought about ‘Sex, Lies and Videotape,’ I realized that what I wanted to see is a movie about the two sisters 30 years later,” Soderbergh said. “One of them has had a child who is about the same age that she was in the original. Both Andie [MacDowell] and Laura [San Giacomo] have agreed to come on.”
In the film, MacDowell plays a woman unhappily married to a lawyer (Peter Gallagher) who is having an affair with her sister, played by Giacomo — all while striking up a relationship with a college friend of her husband (James Spader) who records both sisters talking about their sexual desires.
Soderbergh offered no further details about the film, but the prospect of Soderbergh exploring the world of his very first film so many years later could be an interesting one. In the meantime, Soderbergh is in post-production for his new crime thriller “No Sudden Move.”