Closer

52 Films in 52 Weeks - 3

This film is based on a stage play by Patrick Marber and faces a steller cast of Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen in a dialogue led film about the complications of modern sexual relationships. Obituary writer and would-be author Daniel (Law) meets kooky, young American Alice (Portman), one day when she gets knocked down on a London street. Inspired by her, he writes a book about her life that gets published and thus he meets photographer Anna (Roberts) who he is attracted to. She rebuffs his advances and he unwittingly (and amusingly) leads to her meeting Larry. However, Daniel remains fascinated with Anna and the two couples' lives become deliberately and also coincidentally entwined.

The acting is excellent, you cannot fault the cast and they are all convincing in their roles, although Larry seems to be a bit of an idiot. The dialogue is well-written if graphic and of a mainly sexual nature as characters frankly discuss and argue their relationships, with minimal input from the outside world.