Closer (DVD)

I loved Closer in the theaters and it translates just as well on DVD although I am left to wonder where the hell the special features are, especially considering the buzz that was out before this film hit theaters.

Boasting an amazing cast and a fabulous director Closer is a sexual romp through the lives of four people destined to fall along the same path but all with very different agendas.

Where this film is going to either lose or gain its audience is depending on how offended you get at the thought of hearing such words as cunt, cum and fuck. This film is loaded with the sexual jargon that is gracing today's playgrounds yet we all like to act like it isn't happening.

Closer is an honest look at life, while it may not be your life or mine, these things happen, and it is the way that the story is told and the metaphors that are used and not completely explained that give it its intrigue.

As for the special features, like I said before, they are non-existent. Aside from the DTS soundtrack and awesome picture of Sony's Superbit process all you get is the music video for Damien Rice's "The Blower's Daughter". But I have to wonder where Mike Nichols is, and why isn't he giving us an audio commentary?

This film won two Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for an Oscar and we can't even get the director to talk us through the damn thing? I would have loved to hear Nichols and writer Patrick Marber discuss the film at length and was looking forward to some kind of featurette, but unfortunately there is none.

Closer, even with the lack of featurettes, is a worthy film of any adult's DVD collection. This is not a film for those kids of yours that you are trying to hide from the world, this is a strictly adult film that is absolutely wonderful and I can only hope there is a special edition in the future with some special features... Hint, hint...