Sindre Kaspersen French screenwriter, playwright, actor and director Patrice Chéreau's eight feature film which he wrote with French screenwriter Anne-Louise Trividic after stories written by English-Pakistani author, screenwriter, playwright and director Hanif Kureushi, premiered In competition at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival in 2001, was shot on locations in England and is a France-UK-Spain-Germany co-production which was produced by producer Charles Gassot. It tells the story about a drama teacher named Claire who lives with her family in London, England and a father and bartender named Jay.Distinctly and precisely directed by French filmmaker Patrice Chéreau, this quietly paced fictional tale which is narrated interchangeably from the main characters' viewpoints, draws a humane portrayal of an unacquainted she and he who meet each other on Wednesdays at his place. While notable for its atmospheric milieu depictions and distinct cinematography by cinematographer Eric Gautier, this character-driven and dialog-driven story about non-theoretical … and language where the male lead asks: "Was this agreed?" the female lead asks: "All those things I was hiding. Scary, isn't it?" an English singer utters the words: "When I died, there was no one there …" and "… on the day you die you have total freedom of speech …" which was made more than a century after a French 19th century mystic with a middle name meaning merciful, in her memoirs, wrote: "… If a little bitterness drops onto these pages, no venom will ever fall. The human race as a whole is blameless if individuals waste away like animals in the struggle for existence …" ninety-six years after the first Remembrance Day (1919) was held in the United Kingdom, thirty-two years after an English singer with a first name of English origins meaning counsel of the wolf sang his lyrics: "… The rain cries a little pity for one more forgotten hero and a world that doesn't care …" nine years after an English band started by an Irish lead vocalist called Shakespeare's Sister sang: "… the headlines in the street - - another war … we're bingo numbers and our names are obsolete … a brave new world had dawned upon the human race …" eight years before and English multi-instrumentalist with a birth name meaning innocent in Latin sang: "… Somebody's gonna get hurt … Don't oh please don't oh please don't oh please don't …" and fourteen years before Londoners integrated in the streets of London to protest, depicts several interrelated studies of character and contains a great and timely score by composer Eric Neveaux.This immediate character piece from the early 2000s which is set in England in the early 21st century and where a practicing theatre actress is alive, is impelled and reinforced by its cogent narrative structure, substantial character development, rhythmic continuity, comment by Claire: "You don't even know who I am. You don't even know how to hurt me." and the respectively lingering acting performances by New Zealand actress Kerry Fox, English actors Mark Rylance and Timothy Spall and English actress Marianne Faithful. A graceful narrative feature.

Patricia Carter First time I see these two actors, they've been in the theatre for very long, so their performances are top notch quality. The movie takes you to the land of unwelcome emotions and how they can ruin a relationship between two people, it happens everyday between friends, couples, lovers. Truth is sex can hurt without you realising. This movie is great at showing that, as you watch the intensely realistic sex scenes and then you see him alone waiting for her, you can feel his pain. I really liked the soundtrack it was upbeat and light. There are some drawbacks such as the actor playing husband is basically unrealistically ugly and dumb for the woman. It's got some really great scenes and definitely worth watching and it ends as it should end in real life. Very good.

Maciste_Brother One of the most unpleasant films I've ever seen.The dialogue is howlingly bad. All the characters are reprehensible. The script doesn't make any sense whatsoever.The only thing everyone talks about this film are the sex scenes because the rest is not worth mentioning. The story made so little sense. The relationships between the characters were unbelievable (the gay bartender, the drunk roommate, the main character befriending the overweight husband, etc). Everyone, and I mean everyone, was dour and angry.The bits of dialogue made me laugh out loud. Nothing rang true. Notice the hilarious dialogue during the scene between the two women in the park. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Here's an example:"When I died, there was no one there. I had to go through the whole thing on my own.""What was it, the day you died?"Who talks like that?To make things even worse, the acting is strictly amateurish.The film has a very French feel to it because the director is French but the whole thing didn't jibe at all. It was like watching British characters behave in a French manner, with everything set not in France but set in England.It's almost like the director wanted to make all English folks look bad. Really bad.Avoid at all cost.

Charles Herold (cherold) Intimacy's title is an ironic joke; this is a movie about the lack of intimacy. Intimacy is supplied entirely through sex by characters who are unable to deal with it in their regular lives. Intelligent and absorbing, Intimacy is also quite depressing. Not sad, not tragic, just dispiriting. Jay is a bitter man who is doing his best to hold the world at arms length, yet his desire for something more than his superficial existence is what propels the actions of the movie. He is unable to connect with other people, but then, that seems to be true of almost everyone in the film, and the movie reeks of desperation.That doesn't sound like any fun at all, and Intimacy is not a good time movie. And it's not a weepy tragedy either, it's a cold, clinical film about existential loneliness. It is hard going but worth it.