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  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 2 h 3 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 2 h 3 m

Summary Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to ...

Directed By: Adina Pintilie

Written By: Adina Pintilie

  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 2 h 3 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 2 h 3 m

Touch Me Not

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to ...

Directed By: Adina Pintilie

Written By: Adina Pintilie

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
65
62% Positive
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38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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62% Positive
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38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Though not every moment is fascinating to watch, most moments are, and adult audiences should find its frank presentation of the diversity of intimacy thought-provoking and possibly therapeutic.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 7, 2019
Touch Me Not‘s commingling of narrator and narrative, character and actor, fiction and documentary suggests that cinema itself is capable of being a manner of touch, the site of a nebulous and freeing encounter between people.
By Pat Brown FULL REVIEW
75
The surprise winner of the Berlinale’s Golden Bear is a film not easily summed up in an elevator pitch. It is, however, a studious, intelligent, if flawed and scattershot, work with an open mind about modern sexuality and intimacy. That open mind will need to be replicated in the audience too.
By Ed Frankl FULL REVIEW
70
Pintilie is the opposite of a misanthrope — she’s genuinely invested in opening the mind to the body’s sensations. Keeping it all balanced is where she gets bogged down.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 28, 2019
Featuring a mix of fiction and real life, Touch Me Not explores intimacy in an experimental feature film that manages to make sex seem unlikely and tiresome.
By Bradley Gibson FULL REVIEW
58
Mar 15, 2018
Touch Me Not points towards all manner of holistic truths, but leaves them all frustratingly out of reach.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 18, 2018
People will want to make their own minds up about the film, but for me there is something worryingly crass and naive in it.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Manekino Film, Rohfilm, Pink Productions, Agitprop, Les Films de L'Etranger, HBO Romania, Televiziunea Romana
Release Date Jan 11, 2019
Duration 2 h 3 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/pages/Touch-Me-Not/708466252613618?fref=ts
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Awards

Gopo Awards, Romania
• 1 Win & 9 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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