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Intimacy
Empire Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Mark Rylance,
Kerry Fox,
Timothy Spall,
Alastair Galbraith,
Philippe Calvario,
and
Marianne Faithfull
This intense film depicts the purely sexual relationship between a lonely man (Rylance) and a married woman (Fox).
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Patrice Chéreau
Anne-Louise Trividic
Hanif Kureishi (also story and novel)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Patrice Chéreau
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 23, 2003
Video: September 23, 2003
Theatrical: October 19, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
119 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France / UK / Germany / Spain |
Best Film, Best Actress (Fox), Best European Director, 2001 Berlin International Film Festival
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Vibrating with humanity, it's a potent portrait of love, ranging from the purely carnal to the impurely sublime.
100
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
A new version of the greatest psychological mystery of all: love.
90
Chicago Reader
Richard M. Porton
Chereau's film is both an observant portrait of class-bound London by a foreigner and an empathetic look at sexual passion that completely avoids cheap prurience.
90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A triumph for all concerned, it is especially so for the multitalented Chereau.
80
Slate
David Edelstein
Intimacy doesn’t answer the question, which makes it all the more tantalizing: This is an emotional puzzle movie.
80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
It isn't the sex that shocks here, it's the chilling core of loneliness. Intimacy dares to cut deep, and its daring gets to you.
80
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Although much has and will be made of the film's sexual explicitness -- and, yes, it is a bit -- this less-than-perfect but deeply felt film is finally most daring for its hard-core insistence on our need for connection.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A raw, wounding, powerfully acted film, and you cannot look away from it.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Jay and Claire are exquisitely played by Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox.
75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Sometimes gets bogged down in its own wordiness.
75
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
You may be drawn to Intimacy's graphic scenes, but you'll emerge convinced there's more to life -- and the film -- than sex.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A disconcerting experience.
70
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
If Intimacy does anything well, it portrays desperation, in many different forms.
70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Powerfully acted, intensely carnal drama.
70
Variety
David Rooney
A tortured reflection on the complex relationship between love, sex, desire and obsession, distinguished by courageously raw performances from leads Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox.
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
Chereau's film is disjointed and abrupt and it rages when is should be deft. We're given too little too late and, despite the lessons that lie within the affair, the lines between enlightenment and nihilism blur.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Plays like a warmed-over "Last Tango in Paris," with more explicit sex but a lower level of originality and acting skill.
50
Film Threat
Ron Wells
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.
50
New Times (L.A.)
David Ehrenstein
A lacerating study of sexual alienation.
50
The New Yorker
David Denby
The movie holds one in its surly grip, but when it's over, few people, I think, are likely to be haunted by it. Futility may work as a mood in a short story, but in a full-scale movie it doesn't bear looking at for very long. (29 Oct 2001, p. 92)
50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Some people will want to call it pornography. In one respect, it's the opposite.
50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Wants to be a "Last Tango in Paris" for the new millennium, but its flaccid dramatization and hollow moralizing doesn't rise even to the level of last year's "An Affair of Love," let alone Bertolucci's masterpiece.
50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Authentically British or not, Intimacy is squarely in the indigenous kitchen-sink style -- a far cry from the absurdly chic, sentimental pseudo-worldliness of something like "An Affair of Love."
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