CLOSER – Julia Roberts, Jude Law

Closer (2004)
Direction: Mike Nichols
Screenplay: Patrick Marber, from his 1997 play
Cast: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman
 

 

THE PERFECT DYSFUNCTIONAL DATE MOVIE
Mike Nichols‘ first feature film, an adaptation of Edward Albee’s acclaimed play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is a harrowing dissection of two married couples whose inner demons are let loose during a night of game playing, drinking, and screaming. That was nearly forty years ago. Fast forward to 2004 and to Nichols’ newest film adaptation of an acclaimed play, Patrick Marber’s Closer, another look at two dysfunctional heterosexual couples, this time in the age of cyberspace and AIDS.
On the surface, not much has changed since 1966: although the action has been stretched out from one night [...]

by Andre Soares | December 1, 2004   
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