Closer (2004)
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen
Synopsis:
A casual gesture of infidelity on the part of one partner sets in motion a chain of shifting allegiances between two couples.
Review:
Most crits refer back to Nichols's great Albee adaptation of 1966, but perhaps the director was attempting to update the sexual politics of Carnal Knowledge for a fickler, more internet-savvy generation, but this at times cruelly ironic moral tale founders on a series of assumptions about men and, particularly, women which perhaps appear more blatantly unreal shorn of their theatrical context (the scenario is an opened-out play) and with such good-looking actors in the roles. Also, even if at least two of the cast hand in very decent performances, spending 100 minutes exclusively in their company is rather too akin to cosying up to a nest of vipers.
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen
Synopsis:
A casual gesture of infidelity on the part of one partner sets in motion a chain of shifting allegiances between two couples.
Review:
Most crits refer back to Nichols's great Albee adaptation of 1966, but perhaps the director was attempting to update the sexual politics of Carnal Knowledge for a fickler, more internet-savvy generation, but this at times cruelly ironic moral tale founders on a series of assumptions about men and, particularly, women which perhaps appear more blatantly unreal shorn of their theatrical context (the scenario is an opened-out play) and with such good-looking actors in the roles. Also, even if at least two of the cast hand in very decent performances, spending 100 minutes exclusively in their company is rather too akin to cosying up to a nest of vipers.
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen
Synopsis:
A casual gesture of infidelity on the part of one partner sets in motion a chain of shifting allegiances between two couples.
Review:
Most crits refer back to Nichols's great Albee adaptation of 1966, but perhaps the director was attempting to update the sexual politics of Carnal Knowledge for a fickler, more internet-savvy generation, but this at times cruelly ironic moral tale founders on a series of assumptions about men and, particularly, women which perhaps appear more blatantly unreal shorn of their theatrical context (the scenario is an opened-out play) and with such good-looking actors in the roles. Also, even if at least two of the cast hand in very decent performances, spending 100 minutes exclusively in their company is rather too akin to cosying up to a nest of vipers.