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...been with Alice all this time, is infatuated with Anna (Julia Roberts). She feels the same attraction, and for a few months they've been coupling furtively while keeping lodgings with their significant others. Now comes the messy announcements to Alice and to Anna's lover Larry (Clive Owen...
...instant, utter and mutual eradication of their year-long tryst. "Thank you for your honesty," he tells her. "Now fuck off and die." It's the loser's victory, which he must extend by ruining Dan's life when he returns to Alice. "The brutal part of the beast," Owen told TIME's Desa Philadelphia, "is the fact that not only has Larry got to get the girl, he's also got to make sure he fucks Dan completely over as well...
...What Nichols and his cast bring to the piece is the eloquence of gesture. Each of the actors has telling little moments: Portman's busyness with a stranger's glasses; the slouch of Law's shoulders when his ego takes the impact of another sandbag; the tightening of Owen's smile to signal he's morphing from victim to predator; the sting Roberts reveals behind her eyes when she's chastised. (Nichols flatteringly calls Roberts "the CNN of actresses: on the closeup you actually see a crawl, noun-by-noun, adjective-by-adjective, of what she's thinking.") They keep...
...Another way "Closer" diverges from the standard Hollywood movie is that it allows, insists on, multiple points of view and shifting audience allegiances. "People are going to switch depending on their emotional history," Owen says. "Have they been betrayed? Have they betrayed somebody? I think all of us of a certain age - all of us who have had any average experience of sex - have, to some extent, been in some of these scenes. And depending on your experience, that's where you sit. So it's not like one character takes you through the journey, and you experience...
...Round Table defending civilization as they know it. Conditions in this world are not visibly much different from barbarism. Life on this frontier is rude and basic, though Guinevere (Keira Knightley) does tidy herself up and slip into something pretty before getting it on with Arthur (Clive Owen). All poor Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) gets, however, is a wistful peek through the window at Guinevere in dishabille and early death on the battlefield...