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Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

  • Starring: Kerry Fox, Mark Rylance
  • Summary: This intense film depicts the purely sexual relationship between a lonely man (Rylance) and a married woman (Fox).
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 23
  2. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Vibrating with humanity, it's a potent portrait of love, ranging from the purely carnal to the impurely sublime.
  2. 80
    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.
  3. 80
    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.
  4. Plays like a warmed-over "Last Tango in Paris," with more explicit sex but a lower level of originality and acting skill.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3

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