Starring: Jodie Foster, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen
Directed By: Mike Nichols
Release Date: December 12th, 2004 (wide)
From Yahoo! - "A story of passion, drama, love, and abandonment involving two couples, which only gets more complicated when the man from the first couple gets acquainted with the woman from the second coupling.", this movie recieved an "R" rating from MPAA for its sequences of graphic sexual dialogue, nudity/sexuality and language.
From its cover, it was immediately shown that the two couples in questions were Jodie Foster - Clive Owen and Natalie Portman - Jude Law. Well actually, beside that small information about this film from Yahoo! that i had cited above, i had no information whatsoever regarding this movie. Only a small tid-bits information that Ms.Portman would play as a stripper. Now that's some news. Ms.Portman as we already knew, was my favourite actress.. i mean, she's young (d.o.b June 9th, 1981), Harvard graduate, able to speak in English, Hebrew, French, and Japanese, and she had always been a nice girl who would still let her body covered in a full-cloth in her movies. With that youngness gestures, enigmatic yet smart pair of eyes, beautiful but rather sinistic smile, i was immediately fallen in love with her when i first laid an eye on her role as Jean Reno's sidekick Mathilda in Leon, The Professional (1994) and alas she's the only reason i had endured the ultra-terrible Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Well, that was another story. But anyway, rumor had it that Mike Nichols was actually shot a scene featuring Ms.Portman, for the first time in her career un-dressing her-self and exposing her uncovered beauty. That news was shocked me! literally, apart from my manhood who would like to see her naked, i dont want to see her naked whatsoever as it would surely ruined my favouriteness in her.
"Damn you Mike Nichols!". No! it wasn't my exclamation regarding the issue. It was a title of a certain article on the internet which i had read several days ago. In the article which had earned more exclamation suggested by its title than the sigh of relief such as the one i had, said that Mike Nichols had recently cut-off the scene where Ms.Portman shows her naked body. And furthermore, he had clearly stated that the scene will not made it to the DVDs as well. And as i've said, it simply earned the "Damn you Mike Nichols!" exclamation though i've found that the news was simply delightful since i dont want to see her naked whatsoever.
Put that aside, i had anticipated this movie by the time i grasp the news. Okay, Ms.Portman was all the more reason i need why i'd waited for this movie to come around. But who would doubt Julia Roberts? okay, she wasn't that good in "Mona Lisa Smile" but she was everything in "Erin Brockovich" and had maintained her role qualities over several movies that follows or Jude Law? though true, that he had played in too many movies these last years but he was clearly not one of those boyish actors who only knew how to pose and to gave a chick-magnet gestures on the screen. And anyway, these last years had proved that this kind of movie (a comedy-romance genre) which released at this specific time of year almost nearly weighing more in quality than the same kind of movie which released at any other time of year.
Desire-O-Meter: *** / **** - Cant wait to see Ms.Portman.