film version of sandra bernhard one woman off broadway show be gaspingly pretentious . sandra spoofs lounge act and superstar and but her sense of irony be only fitfully interesting and and fitfully funny . her fan will say she scathingly honest and and that may be true . but she also shrill and with an unapologetic and in your face bravado that isn not well suit to a film in this genre . she doesn not want to make nice and she certainly not out to make friend and that always go to rub a lot of people the wrong way . but even if you meet her halfway and her material here be seriously lack . filmmaker nicolas roeg serve a executive producer and and though not direct by him and the film do have his chilly and detached signature style all over it . bernhard co write the show with director john boskovich while their odd touch be in have all of sandra in house audience look completely bore a feeling many real viewer will most likely share . half from .