Intimacy (Unrated, Widescreen Edition)
by Patrice Chéreau
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Actor: Alastair Galbraith, Kerry Fox, Mark Rylance, Philippe Calvario, Susannah HarkerDirector: Patrice Chéreau
Brand: Koch International
Writer: Patrice Chéreau
Producer: Charles Gassot
Producer: Jacques Hinstin
Producer: Lesley Stewart
Producer: Patrick Cassavetti
Writer: Anne-Louise Trividic
Writer: Hanif Kureishi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: KOCH LORBER FILMS
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- What starts out as a weekly anonymous tryst between a married woman and a divorced man becomes a searing portrait of loneliness and emotional need. Directed by Patrice Chereau (Queen Margot), INTIMACY won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival where lead actress Kerry Fox also won the Best Actress Award. Based on Hanif Kureishis controversial novel, INTIMACY was selected to
Movie Reviews of Intimacy (Unrated, Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Uncompromisingly bleak, gorgeously fascinating...
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, this is not a movie for: 1. People with puritannical hangups about sex and nudity, 2. People with infantile and cliched notions of Romance and Relationships with capital R's, 3. People with kitschy expectations of what a "pleasurable" movie experience should be like, and 4. People with generally childlike, conformist perceptions of self and society.
"Intimacy" is really about the LACK of real emotional intimacy, even in the midst of feverish physical intimacy between two randy strangers, not just in the all-too-familiar midst of the universal social theatre of conventional marriage with its elaborate playacting and mutually-agreed-upon delusions.
It is above all about the emotional and cultural reality that all too many of us live in: abject isolation, emotional deadness, self-absorption and ego-glorification, raving desperation and desolation.
The sex scenes are extremely realistic: instead of the usual cosmetized puppetry most often seen in film eroticism, we see two pale, flabby, clumsy and dysfunctional adults go at each other like mute rabbits, about 8 parts too-long-repressed libido and 2 parts actual skill.
Yes, there is quite a bit of (gasp!) exposure of an (gasp!) uncircumsized (gasp!) male (gasp!) sex organ, including actual (gasp!) mouth-to-genital contact (to borrow the oh-so poetic language of the Starr Report) in (gasp!) both directions.
There. Now if those stupendously mind-blowing, earth-shattering details do not knock you off of your rocking chair and leave you in a prolonged state of catatonia, you may well quite enjoy this film. True, the two main characters do not ever ride off into the sunset on a white horse with flower petals in their hair, but you probably guessed that one already.
Summary of Intimacy (Unrated, Widescreen Edition)
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