Up close (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Up close - Closer |
| Original title | Closer |
| Country of production |
USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mike Nichols |
| script | Patrick Marber |
| production |
Cary Brokaw John Calley Mike Nichols Scott Rudin |
| music | Suzana Peric |
| camera | Stephen Goldblatt |
| cut |
John Bloom Antonia Van Drimmelen |
| occupation | |
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Closer ( Closer ) is an American film drama by Mike Nichols from the year 2004 . The script is based on the play of the same name by Patrick Marber .
action
The film tells of the interrelated relationships and fates of the writer Dan, the stripper Alice, the photographer Anna and the doctor Larry.
In the middle of London, the unsuccessful writer Dan and Alice, who has just come to England from New York, meet and immediately fall in love. A year later, when Dan is about to be photographed for a novel based on Alice's life, he flirts with the photographer Anna and kisses her. She rejects him when she learns a few minutes later that her flirt is already in a relationship. Annoyed, Dan pretends to be an "Anna" ready for anything in an erotic chat on the Internet to the dermatologist Larry and arranges a meeting in the aquarium of the London Zoo . The real Anna is actually in the aquarium at the agreed time. She and Larry hit it off and begin a relationship in the course of which they marry. However, shared happiness does not last. Anna begins a secret relationship with Dan against all common sense, and all the protagonists sink deeper and deeper into a vortex of sex, greed, desperation, truth and lies.
Anna separates from Larry, as does Dan from Alice. While Anna and Dan become a new couple, Larry and Alice get lost. Alice works as a stripper again and is accidentally recognized by Larry in a club, he asks her several times for her real name and repeatedly gets Jane Jones as an answer , but is not convinced of the truth as he only knows her as Alice. Larry tries to persuade Alice to have a night together, but she never leaves the role of stripper and refuses.
To get her husband to agree to the divorce, Anna sleeps with Larry one more time, but when Dan finds out, their relationship falls apart. He later visits Larry in his doctor's office, who tells him that he is back with Anna. Larry advises him that Alice is Dan's true destiny and tells him where to find Alice. Larry, who wants to take revenge on Dan, also tells him at the end of the conversation that he slept with Alice. When Dan later forces Alice to reveal this of her own accord, she abruptly ends the relationship and returns to New York. At passport control, she identifies herself with a passport made out to Jane Jones . Dan only later discovers that she took the name Alice Ayres, by which he had known her for three years, from a plaque in Postman's Park .
Similar to the opening scene, the last shot shows Alice walking through the crowd and crossing the street when it is red. But there is nothing to suggest that, analogous to the play, it will die.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "an elliptically narrated drama about partner swapping and psycho-stress, the external plot of which can only be deduced from the dialogues ". The “ restrained ” staging is completely subordinate to the actors' portrayals, “ which is partly due to the theater presentation ”.
Awards
- Best Supporting Actress (Natalie Portman) - Nomination
- Best Supporting Actor (Clive Owen) - Nomination
- Best Supporting Actress (Natalie Portman)
- Best Supporting Actor (Clive Owen)
Further nominations:
- Best film / drama
- Best director
- Best film script
- Best Supporting Actor (Clive Owen)
- Best Supporting Actor (Clive Owen) - Nomination
- Best Supporting Actress (Natalie Portman) - Nomination
- Best Adapted Screenplay Nomination
- Further awards
- Sierra Award 2005 from the Las Vegas Film Critics Society
- National Board of Review Award 2005 from the National Board of Review
- New York Film Critics Circle Award 2005 from the New York Film Critics Circle for Clive Owen
- 2005 San Diego Film Critics Society SDFCS Award for Natalie Portman
- Toronto Film Critics Association 2005 Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Clive Owen
background
The film was shot at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood and London . Its production amounted to an estimated 27 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 34 million in US cinemas. The film earned $ 81,517,270 internationally, 70% of the total revenue of $ 115,505,027.
The film uses numerous pieces of music from Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Damien Rice wrote and sang the songs The Blower's Daughter and Cold Water ; Bebel Gilberto created Samba Da Benção , Tanto Tempo and Mais Feliz . During the séparée scene in the strip club, pieces by British bands The Prodigy ( Smack My Bitch Up ) and The Smiths ( How Soon Is Now? ) Will be played .
Trivia
In 2005 the band released Panic! at the Disco a song entitled "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off". Alice says this sentence in the strip club.
literature
- Patrick Marber : Up close . The theater series (Volume 6), German by Helmar Harald Fischer . Project Theater-und-Medien-Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-930226-05-7 , 111 pp.
Web links
- Closer Official Website, Sony Pictures
- Up close in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Close at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Close at Metacritic (English)
- Up close in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for skin close . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2004 (PDF; test number: 100 924 K).
- ↑ Age rating for skin close . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Up close. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Filming locations. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ^ Closer (2004) , boxofficemojo.com