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Closer
Abstract: What a premise, "If you believe in Love at First Sight, you never stop looking."
Jude Law brings his usual smouldering looks to the screen in this performance, Julia Roberts lends her ready smile, Natalie Portman brightens things up a little and Clive Owen shines when he gets angry.
Does watching this movie make you somehow more "aware" of things around you? Sounds, sights, inflections, all seemed more alive somehow after I was done with the movie.
Natalie Portman will get some great nods after this command performance, easily outshining Julia Roberts in this particular movie. The guys do well in their roles, and are thoroughly convincing, Clive Owen even getting me to pull for him a little even though his character would normally put me off.
A little on the harsh side, but then again, love and lust always lead to harsh consequences, so why gloss over it right?
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Credit: sonypictures.com
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As far as I'm concerned, this is one of the most honest relationship movies, ever. It is well written, brilliantly directed (Mike Nichols: The Graduate, Angels in America), beautifully and non-linearly paced (or it is linear, but we must run to keep up with the pace and fill in the many gaps in time) and character driven by a fantastic ensemble. Like Soderbergh's Sex, Lies and Videotape, there aren't more than four actors in this film - everyone else is an extra or an extra with a line or two and it WORKS LARGE.
Jude is completely charming cad (my favourite kind), Clive Owen is earnestly endearing, while remaining a bit more unpolished than the usual movie doctor, Natalie Portman is the sullen teenager that you pass every day on the street and want to help until she snaps at your hand, and Julia Roberts is perfect - perfectly profane, and delightfully cold (in the manner of one who has been hurt once too often). I must admit, I am no Julia Roberts fan, but I like her FAAAAAR more when she actually shares the screen instead of being a movie star; this film is a true ensemble piece from which scene after scene will be played out in acting classes for the next 17 years.
Anyway, as likeable as each of these characters are separately, together they are a trainwreck. An inevitable, horrific, and yet extremely attractive trainwreck, that we all see bits of debris from daily.
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