Intimacy
Movie: Intimacy
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Year: 2001
Watched on: 30 December 2005
Rating: ***1/2 (3.5/5)
Review:
Intimacy is a strange story of Jay (Mark Rylance), a failed musician, a divorcee, father of two kids and a bartender. Every Wednesday a woman comes to his house and they have passionate sex without any tenderness or friendship. They don't talk much and they do not even try to know each other's names. Jay discovers that the woman gives him the pleasure which he had not sought and she is so selfless that she doesn’t demand to be given the same or some pleasure. Slowly Jay is intrigued by this woman and starts to spy on her. He learns her name is Claire (Kerry Fox), who is a stage artist married to a taxi Andy (Timothy Spall), a taxi driver and mother of a boy. Their strange relationship heads towards a breakup as Claire discovers that Jay knows her identity. Patrice Chéreau weaves a very complex but a subtle story about human behavior, relationships and loneliness that makes us yearn for intimacy. This movie is neither a pornographic/erotic by any standards despite some graphical sex scenes nor a fast paced thriller for mass consumption but a dark and disturbing study of human relationships.
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Year: 2001
Watched on: 30 December 2005
Rating: ***1/2 (3.5/5)
Review:
Intimacy is a strange story of Jay (Mark Rylance), a failed musician, a divorcee, father of two kids and a bartender. Every Wednesday a woman comes to his house and they have passionate sex without any tenderness or friendship. They don't talk much and they do not even try to know each other's names. Jay discovers that the woman gives him the pleasure which he had not sought and she is so selfless that she doesn’t demand to be given the same or some pleasure. Slowly Jay is intrigued by this woman and starts to spy on her. He learns her name is Claire (Kerry Fox), who is a stage artist married to a taxi Andy (Timothy Spall), a taxi driver and mother of a boy. Their strange relationship heads towards a breakup as Claire discovers that Jay knows her identity. Patrice Chéreau weaves a very complex but a subtle story about human behavior, relationships and loneliness that makes us yearn for intimacy. This movie is neither a pornographic/erotic by any standards despite some graphical sex scenes nor a fast paced thriller for mass consumption but a dark and disturbing study of human relationships.