Not bad (for a Nichols' film)

Rating: 7/10 (9 March 2006)

A failed writer, a young stripper, a doctor with a certain prestige, and a very successful photographer. Four characters, four crossed relationships. Sex, love, infidelity, the animal attraction... Well, "Closer" is not that original, is it? Cinema has talked about all kind of relationships along the last 100 years. So, the virtues of "Closer" are not in the story it tells but in the way Nichols tells it, his last movie is much more foul-mouthed and direct than the rest of his works. Is rather strange to hear Julia Roberts holding a conversation with huge explicitly sexual contents, or to watch strait-laced Natalie Portman moving like an expert stripper.
Well, I don't think Mike Nichols is a great director, and I don't specially like none of the actors either, but the movie as a whole is not that bad... As we use to say here in Spain: in blind men's land, the one-eyed is the king (got it?).
*My rate: 7/10