Intimacy (2001)
(Intimité)
Country: FR/GB
Technical: col/Super 35 120m
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Cast: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall, Alastair Galbraith, Susannah Harker, Marianne Faithfull
Synopsis:
A man who has left his wife and children and a woman craving some raw experience to release her pent up frustration as an actress meet in his flat once a week for wordless sex.
Review:
Last Tango in London, you might say, and certainly this rather different film caused as much of a stir over its couplings. What both partners find, of course, is that their lack of communication leads to resentment and misunderstanding, and when finally they do attain a moment of intimacy it is too late for the man and too much for the woman. All this is achieved at some length, allowing for minor characters to get a look in and the director to scan a somewhat disenchanting London with his camera, but it is a triumph of acting and Chéreau's close-quarters cinema.
(Intimité)
Country: FR/GB
Technical: col/Super 35 120m
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Cast: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall, Alastair Galbraith, Susannah Harker, Marianne Faithfull
Synopsis:
A man who has left his wife and children and a woman craving some raw experience to release her pent up frustration as an actress meet in his flat once a week for wordless sex.
Review:
Last Tango in London, you might say, and certainly this rather different film caused as much of a stir over its couplings. What both partners find, of course, is that their lack of communication leads to resentment and misunderstanding, and when finally they do attain a moment of intimacy it is too late for the man and too much for the woman. All this is achieved at some length, allowing for minor characters to get a look in and the director to scan a somewhat disenchanting London with his camera, but it is a triumph of acting and Chéreau's close-quarters cinema.
(Intimité)
Country: FR/GB
Technical: col/Super 35 120m
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Cast: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall, Alastair Galbraith, Susannah Harker, Marianne Faithfull
Synopsis:
A man who has left his wife and children and a woman craving some raw experience to release her pent up frustration as an actress meet in his flat once a week for wordless sex.
Review:
Last Tango in London, you might say, and certainly this rather different film caused as much of a stir over its couplings. What both partners find, of course, is that their lack of communication leads to resentment and misunderstanding, and when finally they do attain a moment of intimacy it is too late for the man and too much for the woman. All this is achieved at some length, allowing for minor characters to get a look in and the director to scan a somewhat disenchanting London with his camera, but it is a triumph of acting and Chéreau's close-quarters cinema.