Love, Sexuality Formula for Distance in 'Closer'

Augusta Chronicle, The › February 04, 2005

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Mike Nichols' Closer is a movie about four people who richly deserve one another. Fascinated by the game of love, seduced by seduction itself, they play at sincere, truthful relationships that are lies in almost every respect except their desire to sleep with each other.

All four are smart and ferociously articulate, adept at seeming forthright and sincere even in their most shameless deceptions. "The truth," one says. "Without it, we're animals."

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Love, Sexuality Formula for Distance in 'Closer'

Actually, truth causes them more trouble than it saves, because they seem compelled to be most truthful ab...

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