Brilliant 'Bedroom' just a bore on DVD

Before I begin talking about "In the Bedroom" as a DVD, let me address it as a film. Nominated for multiple awards, including five Oscars, new director Todd Field burst on the scene last year with a film that quietly quaked with a seething emotion very rarely captured.\nBased on a short story by Andre Dubus, "In the Bedroom" portrays how one family deals with the death of its teenage son. Field, for his directorial debut, actually took something of a risk, but one that is much-appreciated and that paid off with an Oscar nomination for best picture. \n"In the Bedroom" is one of those rare films that truly dares to tell the majority and most meaningful parts of its story through pictures and pictures alone. No overbearing dialogue, no extraneous score cuing the proper emotions, just these incredibly haunting images that can mean as much or as less to the viewer as he or she is willing to look into them.\nFurthermore, "In the Bedroom" is filled with raw, realistic performances by its entire amazing cast. Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek give arguably the performances of their careers and earn Oscar nominations in the process.\n"In the Bedroom" is a haunting and quietly brilliant film for those who have a finer, more artistic-driven taste for the cinema. "In the Bedroom" as a DVD flat sucks. When the extent of the special features are "available in both English and French," well, I think that pretty much says everything you need to know.\nDevoid of any specials, interviews or even a commentary, whatever brilliance was used to create this film was most definitely not used when designing the marketing strategy for this DVD. From a film lover's point of view, "In the Bedroom" is the kind of movie that looks great in your collection. But for the general public, don't waste the money, and, hopefully, they'll be releasing a special edition of this exceptional film that's actually worthy of the DVD format.