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Intimacy

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 3 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Patrice Chéreau
Anne-Louise Trividic
Hanif Kureishi (also story and novel)
Directed by: Patrice Chéreau
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 19, 2001
DVD: September 23, 2003
Running Time: 119 minutes, Color
Origin: France / UK / Germany / Spain
Summary
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).
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What The Critics Said
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...
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Vibrating with humanity, it's a potent portrait of love, ranging from the purely carnal to the impurely sublime.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
A new version of the greatest psychological mystery of all: love.
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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A triumph for all concerned, it is especially so for the multitalented Chereau.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
Intimacy doesn’t answer the question, which makes it all the more tantalizing: This is an emotional puzzle movie.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A raw, wounding, powerfully acted film, and you cannot look away from it.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Jay and Claire are exquisitely played by Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
If Intimacy does anything well, it portrays desperation, in many different forms.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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)
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Some people will want to call it pornography. In one respect, it's the opposite.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Andrew M. gave it a 6:
A better film than Romance (as the trend is to compare the two) but still not a film I would strongly recommend to anyone, especially family :-) It explores some deep emotional and human themes but how well it does that is really up to each individual viewer. This one was not overly affected.
Gilbert Mulroneycakes Live At The Hollywood Bowl gave it a 7:
Aaaaa! Not for the squeamish, but a worthy film. Ick! Without being dull. Eeeew.
Chad S. gave it a 6:
"Intimacy" is the sort of film you respect more than like. The use of full-frontal nudity and graphic sex worked better in "Romance" because the inherent art-house cache of a foreign language gave the horizontal gymnastics some levity. Since the actors speak English in "Intimacy", oral sex is just oral sex, thus feels closer to pornography. Kerry Fox's job is to distract us from the fact that her character is nothing more than a nymphomaniac by looking tortured. But Fox's performance is so good, she does. Still, I'm skeptical if vertical smiles and scrotums is a trend that's worth continuing.
