CLOSER - is it not just one of the weirdest pieces of oddness ever made?

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i only saw snippets, i couldn't decide if the bad acting was a 'stylistic device' or just bad acting. and no wonder they were all so miserable living in horrible grey apartments. get some cushions and cheer up i wan't to say before i realised they weren't real and turned over.

Yes, I hated it. I just couldn't believe the characters in it would really get it together - any of them! Clive Owen was as wooden as a walking stick, as ever, and Natalie Portman was totally wasted (though of course we had to get an eyefull of her kecks, what a surprise). Pile of shite IMO.

Yeah I caught the second half and found it very weird. Dialogue was unrealistic and seemed so obviously to have been adapted from a play. Found it a bit sickening actually.

I saw this when it was produced as the original play, I must have been in my early 20s.

Saw the film when it came out and all I can say is that what I thought was insightful and cool when I was 22 really doesn't convince me now!!

I agree with you on both movies. Blech!

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I really liked bits of it.
It is the play in film form - I thought it was meant to seem like that?
Some of the acting was mindblowingly good imo but I think I am in the minority there
Agree it was disgusting, they were all repellent characters (Clive Owen's particularly)

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YOu should have seen the play - it makes alot more sense

Sally Dexter was particularly briliant

I didn't see it as overacted (though it certainly wasn't subtle, lol)
I did raise an eyebrow at Julia Roberts trying to do something proper serious, though she wasn't atrocious
Natalie Portman was not right for the part imo, not at all
Jude Law, he is so shallow, he wasn't believable as the deep, damaged, desperate character
Clive Owen was good i thought but then i like his acting style. The scene where he is telling Jude Law that he knows he cries in his sleep for his mummy really stuck in my mind.
I remember seeing it at the cinema and wanting to get the 17-yr-old girls coming out of the cinema together and tell them that adult relationships are not generally like that (well, not in my life).

I don't think they were meant to be sympathetic characters I did not mind the film version except I find Jude Law utterly loathsome in every way and can't judge his character fairly.
I think the other did a fair job.

did Jude play Larry?

no he played Dan, and I would agree Natalie Portman was miscast beautiful as she is just did not cut it

Is Larry the Dr? no he played the other one
Clive Owen was the dr (white coats totally do it for me so I am obviously biased)

Dan in the play was a great guy. He was shy, and sincere and awkward - but made some shit choices

Clive played the dr in the orignal stage production too