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Intimacy (Unrated, Widescreen Edition) (2001)

Mark Rylance , Kerry Fox , Patrice Chéreau  |  Unrated |  DVD
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)


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  • Actors: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Susannah Harker, Alastair Galbraith, Philippe Calvario
  • Directors: Patrice Chéreau
  • Writers: Patrice Chéreau, Anne-Louise Trividic, Hanif Kureishi
  • Producers: Charles Gassot, Jacques Hinstin, Lesley Stewart, Patrick Cassavetti
  • Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: KOCH LORBER FILMS
  • DVD Release Date: January 6, 2004
  • Run Time: 115 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000BWVD9
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,520 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Intimacy (Unrated, Widescreen Edition)" on IMDb

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310 of 322 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars When the center doesn't hold January 5, 2002
This amazing movie is a look at the ways that a man, the protagonist Jay (Mark Rylance) once-married, and a once fairly conventional husband and dad, can utterly fall apart in divorce, the heartbreaking ways he might try to put a life back together, and the ache for connection and communion that can't necessarily be soothed - within or without "happy" marriages.

By now the plot and the fact of its depiction of acts of sexual intercourse are well-known. There is a woman, Claire. She shows up at Jay's door, Wednesdays at 2 PM. We don't know anything about her at first - just that once she's in his apartment, her clothes (and his) come off. The five to ten minutes of intense once-weekly sex on Jay's apartment floor is no less important for being quick and wordless; it is a sort of a pact between the couple, and their shared illness, really. But it can't, ultimately, do the trick, and the film succeeds - unmoralistically - in showing us how and why. The urge to find either oblivion or ecstasy - whether via alcohol or sex or other means - fuels the couple. There are amazing surprises along the way, via a script that is utterly believable and natural.

In fact, every aspect of the protagonist Jay's life is in fact shown harshly, "graphically," whether it is his hectic job tending bar, his messy, depressing apartment (further evidence that he has lost his moorings), his several friends, or his frantic travels through London. (The camera chases him, and he is chasing her). We're by turns frustrated, confused, and focused. One's attention never wanders during this story.

Children (Jay's and Claire's) are used well in this film. They can tell the truth, and they do. They use the word "love" - and the adults in this movie really can't....

This is an astonishing film about broken hearts - and what people might do to try to mend them. Read more ›

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103 of 109 people found the following review helpful
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Intimacy isn't about titillation or tanned toned Hollywood studs and babes having perfectly choreographed sex in beautiful lighting while poor piano music plays. Instead it's about an ordinary pair of people seeking solace in a purely physical relationship. Both are empty individuals and briefly find something to fire them in their weekly sexual meetings. Nothing is said but there is a purity of understanding.

The relationship, and the film, only falters when the film moves outside the seedy flat that the liaisons take place in. The wordless arrangement can only work while everything is strictly anonymous, and once Jay (Rylance) delves into Claire's (Fox) personal life their apparently simple relationship becomes more complicated.

It's also here that the film briefly slumps. Jay encounters Claire's taxi driver husband, played by an uncharacteristically off form Timothy Spall. Speaking nonsense and totally over the top, his scenes are almost unbearably dreary. I can certainly see why Claire would want peace and quiet and intense sex after listening to that intensely boring man twitter on. Still, it doesn't make his scenes any better to watch.

Despite that though the film regains it footing and ends strongly. Even Timothy Spall's character shows some hidden depths! However, Intimacy works best as a comment on the relationships people trap themselves in. It's easier to stay in an unhappy relationship than walk out, and starting something new takes courage. Jay and Claire are unable to escape their empty lives, except in their sexual relationship. Really both are cowards. Neither is happy, but neither makes a serious effort to change their circumstances.
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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars I love you on wednesday, but not on thursday-E.S.V.Millay November 13, 2004
Format:DVD
When I went to see that movie, I was a bit afraid of the sex scenes talked about in all media after this film had been awarded two Golden Bears, the highest awards of Berlin film festival (I prefer to watch films that got awards)...

What I then saw were two white bodies, moving together like Rodin's sculptures beautifully united in their dance of desire...There was no artificial smiles or styled muscles, natural true sex with sweating and sounds of exercise, and the relief afterwards, tenderness, not many words were exchanged ...

It was a film tremendously moving for the truth it showed, starting with the sex on the floor, pictures of the protagonist Jay smoking on the toilet in a bathroom filled with fungi (men usually do not clean up, that is so real)..

Reality without cosmetic everywhere: the brown, grey blocks of London suburbs, Jay's friend Victor, a sweating alcoholic wearing a moist but elegant jacket, wonderfully realistically played, too, Claire, in contrast to her type wearing once elegant black much too expensive underwear, which highlighted the image of her being a bad actress..(she played that role wonderfully, showing how good she really is..)..

Mark Rylance was superb in showing so much vulnerability, having had to leave the family, the boys he very much loved, the wife he still waited to show him something more than just detest(there is a rather naturalistic masturbation scene, after his wife had turned away from him in bed sleeping like their dead relationship..)...So much following, a great playing Marianne Faithful, Timothy Spall wonderful, all these naturalistic characters at the Pub or at the actors school...

I can watch that film on and on and still discover new things all the time....
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Intimacy
This was a breakthrough film, certainly. Kerry Fox takes lots of risks and took her biggest in this one. Don't know much about Mark Rylance but thought he was amazing also. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jean Musmacher
3.0 out of 5 stars She did WHAT!!
"Initimacy" is not you typical movie, It's not about "Good looking people" having sex. Just normal looking people having sex. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Naomi
5.0 out of 5 stars Harrowing and powerful
I'd heard about this movie through word of mouth (Amanda Palmer recommended it highly, and I love her taste so there you go), and it was everything I thought it would be --... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Melanie Fletcher
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful journey to the inside of the human intimacy...
I think it's a beautiful movie portraying the insides of our souls - scared people, who want intimacy, try to find it in sex, are clumsy and close, want to be open, but are so... Read more
Published 9 months ago by N. Chernyavskaya
4.0 out of 5 stars Want to see a cougar?
A seemingly ugly woman with the nicest T&A you could ever imagine. Makes you second guess that butta-face next door. Read more
Published on January 30, 2010 by Christopher R. Boehler
1.0 out of 5 stars A labor of love to view for Anglophilic cine-masochists
A turgid and banal melodrama set against the claustrophobic emotional lives of grubby Londoners, a pale depressed lot in gray and depressed circumstances, offset only slightly by... Read more
Published on October 1, 2009 by APC Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars don't make no sense
...this movie was incredible, no scratches, case still in tact, i would definetely order from this person again...
Published on January 15, 2009 by Benjamin Ingram
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
I just finished reading Hanif Kureishi's novella, which this is (very) loosely based on. Thank Gawd Patrice Chéreau greatly embellished and improved on the story which was... Read more
Published on November 17, 2008 by M. Murphy
3.0 out of 5 stars Does not convey enough emotion
Can a midlife crisis be fulfilled with sex alone? To save you time from watching this movie the short answer to that question is "no". Read more
Published on September 12, 2008 by Reader
4.0 out of 5 stars intense!
i gave this movie a 4 out of five stars because i never seen a movie like this b4 it didn,t explain how they got 2gether but the sex scenes where like wow! Read more
Published on June 23, 2008 by africaserengeti
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