So real it will leave you dumbfounded

Rating: 10/10 (1 December 2005)

This film is the "anti- romantic comedy/drama." Not that it is without any type of love story. Closer is a contemporary, adult film about what we really see, feel, and go through in relationships.
Closer strikes a cord from the beginning. The weeping strings from the films lead song, "The Blower's daughter" by Damien Rice, should be playing in instrumental form throughout the entire film. But the song will only appear to be weeping at the films conclusion. (when you see the film, you will know what I mean.) For anyone that's ever loved and lost, (and we all have) if the feeling from that loss lingers, this film will cut like a knife. And the sincerity displayed by the wonderful Natalie Portman will break your heart time and time again.
Being that this film is more about the "dark times" we encounter while riding the relationship roller coaster, I don't know if this is something you see with your girlfriend/boyfriend. Or maybe I say that because I was without one when I saw the film. It was so good, I paid to see it twice in the theater. Closer will have something that just about everyone who has ever been in love can relate to.