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Intimacy (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 68 Fresh: 44  Rotten:24 Average Rating: 6.3/10
 
Consensus: Acted out with both physical and psychological nakedness by its two leads, Intimacy is an unflinchingly honest look at alienation.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Theatrical Release: Oct 19, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: A man wakes in mid-afternoon in a grungy London apartment. A woman knocks at the door. He lets her in, to an awkward silence. She touches his face tenderly--almost immediately they have stripped and are making love on a mattress on the floor. It is the first of many intense, real-time, sexually... A man wakes in mid-afternoon in a grungy London apartment. A woman knocks at the door. He lets her in, to an awkward silence. She touches his face tenderly--almost immediately they have stripped and are making love on a mattress on the floor. It is the first of many intense, real-time, sexually explicit encounters between Jay (Mark Rylance) and Claire (Kerry Fox). And director Patrice Chéreau reinforces the intensity by keeping his wide-screen camera very close to the actors. Jay and Claire agree to separate their meetings from the rest of their lives. But after one encounter, Jay follows Claire. He discovers that she acts in a basement theater, and is married to a taxi driver, Andy (Timothy Spall). Following her again, Jay loses her. And, in a reversal of roles--like that in Christopher Nolan's FOLLOWING--when she reemerges from a shop, she follows him. She is amused at first, but is disturbed when he goes to the basement theater. Using Hanif Kureshi's misogynistic stories as a basis, Chéreau shifts the emphasis from Jay and his pain at separating from his wife. Instead, INTIMACY reveals a woman trying to start feeling again, who is caught between a needy lover and an anguished, insecure husband. Fox gives a fine performance (that won Best Actress at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival) that is the backbone of this powerful drama. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall, Alastair Galbraith, Phillippe Calvario

Director: Patrice Chereau
Screenwriter: Patrice Chereau, Anne-Louise Trividic
Producer: Patrick Cassavetti, Charles Gassot
Composer: Eric Neveux

DVD Info

Release:

Jan 20, 2004

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
  • Subtitles - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Original Theatrical Trailer

Interactive Features:

  • Scene Access

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Biographies - 1. Cast and Filmmaker

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Geoff Andrew
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Chereau's first English-speaking feature, based on Hanif Kureishi's stories, is a bold, full-frontal (literally) exploration of the mysteries of male and female sexual desire. As such, the audacious film will divide film critics and get NC-17 rating

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Pulsates with desperate, miserable passion.

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10/05/05
Nick Schager
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12/15/03
Matthew Bond
Daily Mail [UK]
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It's ironic that a film exploring the mysteries of how people succeed and fail to connect with each other then fails to really connect with its audience.

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12/08/02
Ron Wells
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10/30/02
Matthew Turner
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I'm sure Chereau meant this to be a searing portrait of psychic distance, and it certainly is bleak. What it is not, unfortunately, is riveting cinema.

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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
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It's a brave art film only because of its porno sex scenes, but it is not necessarily a perceptive one.

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06/25/02
Dennis Schwartz
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It's a frighteningly realistic look at completely passionless sex, and Fox and Rylance both do a good job of making us uncomfortable as we watch.

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05/16/02
Jon Popick
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There is an interesting story here, but the movie circles it at a distance.

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04/26/02
Eric Harrison
Houston Chronicle
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2/5

Rylance and Fox, fine actors, bravely grapple through some astonishingly convincing copulation (did they or didn't they?), and even more bravely struggle with Chereau's unspeakable lines.

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04/01/02
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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For all the sex and vicious psychological game-playing, Chereau's movie is strangely forgettable.

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03/22/02
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
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The sexual content diverts attention away from what is some very powerful acting by the film's talented cast.

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03/08/02
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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3/4

A film with a few floundering moments that becomes a powerful description of what it means to be intimate.

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03/07/02
Marta Barber
Miami Herald
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3.5/4

Its unflinching attitude toward sex is only weakened by the lack of enjoyment that the characters seem to have while actually having sex.

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03/05/02
Jeremy Heilman
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Contains no great revelations, but a lot of outstanding performances.

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01/29/02
Edward Johnson-Ott
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excellent movie
by: macalester 1/19/04

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