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If you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking.
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
Narate
Jan 1, 2025 · via TMDB
"_What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world._" Unpleasant people: The movie! I couldn't believe I hadn't seen this yet and now that I have I have 2 thoughts. First thought is that these 4 really did acted their parts well in this and second... I felt nothing for them by the end.
CinemaSerf
Apr 21, 2024 · via TMDB
Writer "Dan" (Jude Law) likes to spend his evenings, when not with his American girlfriend "Alice" (Natalie Portman), teasing other blokes on sex-chat sites. One night he sets up doctor "Larry" (Clive Owen) with a promise to meet at the aquarium with "Anna". The horned up physician duly turns up, only to discover that meantime "Dan" has vengefully despatched the real "Anna" (Julia Roberts) - his part time lover/photographer, to unknowingly meet him instead. Embarrassed looks, sighs and "Larry" feels like a prat but, maybe the outwardly rather aloof "Anna" is interested? What now ensues is all a bit entertainingly far-fetched as an unwitting ménage-à-quatre emerges, becoming increasingly more intimate, then loving, then manipulatively toxic. Are any of these people destined to find happiness with any of the others. Quite frankly, do they deserve it and do we care? I've always found Owen as wooden as a washboard, but here - especially sharing the screen with an on-form Portman, he actually seems to be able to act (a little). His character, I found, comfortably the most odious of the four. Portman is the star of the show, though. Her portrayal of the needy sex kitten vacillates from provocative to desperate with a compelling ease. There's frequently some vitriol in the writing and the juggled storylines well paced as this story of unlikeable people moves along quickly. I think this might work well on stage, it has a characterful intensity to it, but on screen it's well worth a watch - even if it's all a pretty grim appraisal of human behaviour.
tmdb39513728
Feb 4, 2015 · via TMDB
**Menage a Quatre** You may like _Closer_ because of its flawed characters and their doomed relationships. I like it because it's square. The assorted combinations of love and friendship, scorn and resentment, among two males and two females are literally geometrical. Typically, the dependable love triangle pits three characters together, often a heterosexual convention establishing a male lead zig-zagging between two females, or a female lead choosing between two male suitors. What if we include an extra character? How many triangles can be made with four individuals? Four! And _Closer_ expertly covers them all. Next time you see it, draw out a square with each character occupying a corner. Then connect each of the couplings and triangles as they occur, beginning with Julia-Jude-Natalie. Jude falls for Natalie, introduces her to Julia who gets intimate with her camera. The Jude-Clive-Julia triangle is a clever one. Clive is introduced when Jude seduces him online pretending to be Julia who he meets at the aquarium. Often when a movie script or stage play adheres to a strict formula, it turns out flat and predictable. Not _Closer_. Applying a quadrangular network forces each character to cover all the bases, tagging up every way possible, pushing each juncture to the limit.
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Jude Law
Dan
Natalie Portman
Alice
Julia Roberts
Anna
Clive Owen
Larry
Colin Stinton
Customs Officer
Nick Hobbs
Taxi Driver
Elizabeth Bower
Chatty Exhibition Guest (uncredited)
Antony Gabriel
Luke (uncredited)
Michael Haley
Smoking Man (uncredited)
Steve Morphew
Bartender (uncredited)
Jacqui-Lee Pryce
Traveller (uncredited)
Rene Costa
Club Gangster (uncredited)
Tim Hatley
Production Design
Stephen Goldblatt
Director of Photography
Ann Roth
Costume Design
Steve Morphew
Stand In
Steve Griffin
Stunt Coordinator
David Garrick
Stunts
Marc Cass
Stunts
Michael Haley
Assistant Director
Mike Nichols
Director
Andrew Buckland
Assistant Editor
Sondra James
ADR Voice Casting
Duncan Reid
Co-Executive Producer
Michael Haley
Co-Producer
Celia D. Costas
Executive Producer
Robert Fox
Executive Producer
Scott Rudin
Executive Producer
Cary Brokaw
Producer
John Calley
Producer
Mike Nichols
Producer
Stephen McLaughlin
Scoring Mixer
Patrick Marber
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Patrick Marber
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The Wars of the Roses
City of God
Les petites couleurs
Rear Window
American Beauty
Finders Keepers
Swaarangi
This Is Your Song
Exposure
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
Pather Panchali
By the Window
Amores Perros
The Last Samurai
A Few Good Men
The Passion of the Christ
Walk the Line
Hero
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The Inquisitor
Berlin am Meer
Grease
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Belle de Jour
Reign Over Me
My Sister's Keeper
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Out of Africa
Ariel
High Fidelity
American Graffiti
The Country Girl
The Nativity Story
Man Push Cart
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Naked Lunch
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Dark Horse
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Bad Romance: The Vicky White Story
Aimée & Jaguar
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Prospero's Books
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Sleepless in Seattle
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
The Lovers
Death of the Flea Circus Director
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon
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Angel and the Badman
The Red Squirrel
Kafka
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In His Own Image
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Waiter
Hunting Time
Her Sister's Keeper
My Life Without Me
Bus Stop
Two Women
Topaz
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Dancing at Lughnasa
Five Miles to Midnight
Vallatha Pahayan
Pavoncello
Prime
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Permanent Midnight
The Piano Lesson
The Legend of Paul and Paula
No Bed of Roses
Chasing Yesterday
The Beach Bum
Prelude to a Kiss
The Music Man
Lorna
The Big Bad Swim
Oedipus Rex
The Island of Thirty Coffins
Liberty Stands Still
Assholes
Blue
The Boat on the Grass
Broken Sky
Naked Boys Singing!
Ardor
Everything You Want
Heartbreak Hotel
Negresco
The Undressing
A Night in Heaven
Bad Johnson
Erlkönig
A Quiet Death
Irish Eyes
She Loves Me Not
Bahnwärter Thiel
A House of Secrets and Lies
The Golden Key
Anfisa
Like Trees
女人心
Dicke Liebe
The Post Office
Dvaja
Kráľ sa zabáva
Maximum Exposure: A True Story
Zem nezasľúbená
.avi
7 Miles Out
Motel Aphrodite
Lilies
American Beauty
Gone Girl
Brief Encounter
Little Children
It Ends with Us
Forever First Love
Nightmare Alley
Fatal Attraction
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Madame Bovary
Unfaithful
One Hour Photo
Endless
The Burning Plain
Trust
Inventing the Abbotts
Stealing Home
Dirt Music
Maestro
In Secret
Careful What You Wish For
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Newness
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Dot the I
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