High Flying Bird
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Country/Distributor: USA, Netflix
Opening: February 8
WITH , STEVEN Soderbergh discovers yet another profession whose practitioners’ for-hire physiques stand in for the gig-to-gig economics of his own creative hustle: to the martial-artist hit woman of , and the sex workers of and , add basketball players. His new film, for Netflix, ups the metaphorical ante in a couple of ways: considers hoopsters as content creators in an entertainment industry upended by streaming sites, and as black laborers might attract more attention for writer Tarell Alvin McCraney’s script than for Soderbergh’s latest recursive take on his own platform peregrinations. It amounts to a multifaceted consideration of freedom and agency.
