As Steven Soderbergh prepares to take what he now describes as an extended break from filmmaking, he's living us with one last piece of film work, the glitzy "Behind The Candelabra." Tracking the tragic relationship between Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson, it's another challenge for the filmmaker, one that finds him again in distinct territory, allowing him to draw on cinematic and pop cultural history, while creating something new or interesting within that context. "It was an opportunity to make use of all the hours that I've spent watching melodramas like 'Sunset Boulevard' - anything connected to a certain aesthetic that we associate with camp or just glamour," Soderbergh told PrideSource. With the finished product now slated to play in competition at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival, it seems the results may deliver beyond people's expectations, and certainly past those of executives at major Hollywood studios, who turned Soderbergh down citing the picture as...
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