The Limey

Matt Zoller Seitz remembers Terence Stamp:

[The Limey] is built around close-ups of Wilson (played by [Terence] Stamp) thinking. He could communicate emotions and information in silent close-ups that other actors would have needed pages of dialogue to express.

As it happens, Soderbergh had originally planned to shoot writer Lem Dobbs's script in a more traditional way but realized during editing that it didn't have the every energy and impact he wanted. So he and his editor, Sarah Flack, took the entire thing apart and reassembled it nonlinearly, using the many silent close-ups he'd collected of Stamp and other actors to hold everything together. Soderbergh and Flack had taken close-ups of Stamp around Los Angeles and arranged them nonchronologically to mimic the wanderings of a mind caught between past and present.