What a movie

Rating: 8/10 (21 November 2005)

I saw Closer on the day it was released and following that day I summoned as many people as I could to see this film. The film relies heavily on its four characters whom as actors all have great strength in the film. Clive Owen gives a fantastic and seemingly effortless performance and proved to the American market that he is an actor that we should all be taking note of. Julia Roberts stunned me. It was wonderful to see her in a role with zero likability and to watch her go head on into it fearlessly. I heard Cate Blanchett was to play the role of Anna which I would love to have seen. I think she could have taken it somewhere Julia Roberts just isn't capable of. Ironically Cate Blanchett beat Natalie Portman for her performance in this film. Jude Law is phenomenal and repulsive all at once. There isn't a single character that we can feel bad for, which I think was a weak point, but that may have been the point. Natalir Portman hands down steals the show in what is her most grown up and involved role to date. All of the performances are great but what Natalie Portman brings to the character, the screen, and the film is AMAZING. Her losing at Oscar time was rather disappointing to me. I think this is a movie that deserves to be seen. Not everyone will like it, but there is brutal honesty. I would concur that the honesty is dramatized for the screen and hearing these people talk we may think "people in relationships don't talk like that." Though we may not, at least in Closer the characters will say what we think and want to say.