Intimacy [IMPORT]

Starring:Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Susannah Harker, Alastair Galbraith, Philippe Calvario, Timothy Spall, Marianne Faithfull, Fraser Ayres, Michael Fitzgerald, Robert Addie, Deborah McLaren, Rebecca R. Palmer, Greg Sheffield (II), Vinnie Hunter, Joe Prospero, Sian Reeves, Paola Dionisotti, Marcello Walton, Christian Malcolm, Amy Lindsay
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Studio: Import [Generic]
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Great Indie Flick!
Intimacy
A love that does not speak its name.
Intimacy
"We better not go too far, we'll loose money" is the bottom line in Hollywood.

Intimacy [IMPORT]
Starring: Mark Rylance , Kerry Fox , Susannah Harker , Alastair Galbraith , and Philippe Calvario
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000067D1Y
Release Date: 2003-05-20

Customer Reviews:

Great Indie Flick!.......2007-05-31

Love this movie. It felt real and, I thought, really gave a literal depiction of the human condition that is our quest for INTIMACY.

Intimacy.......2007-03-22

I like this movie for it's authenticity in the portrayal of relationships with regards to married people and the opposing choices people made when thrust into a convenient affair. The male lead having chosen to walk out of a seemingly wonderful marriage because he just could not take it anymore only to find himself in an affair that tore him up emotionally. The female lead has chosen to stay on in a seemingly good marriage, and be eaten up emotionally inside, even though she eventually ended up sharing this affair. The ending is realistic as far as the strength of each character goes, duty versus want, mind versus heart, that's the underlying beauty of this movie, portrayed truthfully by these two torn characters.

A love that does not speak its name........2007-03-10

A worthy movie for adults. The plot is a bit like "Last Tango in Paris," with a man and woman accidentally meeting, then showing up one afternoon a week for some rabid sex, neither telling the other anything about themselves. The guy (Mark Rylance) decides to follow the woman (Kerry Fox), discovers she's married and works in a shabby theater, and is married to a not-overly-bright man who has too many chins and a puffy lower lip like Alfred Hitchcock's. Both of the men want her and she decides to stay with her husband and children. End of plot.

This is about as deglamorized a movie as has recently appeared. At first, both Rylance and Fox look like the kind of people who are right up there in the first rank of the third rate. He runs a bar. He's balding, skinny, always needs a shave, and lives alone in some seedy dump that looks like a Soviet-era zheloy dom. She first appears with her hair up, working-class style, glumly groomed. And the two of them are photographed -- dressed or otherwise -- in a way that makes their skin seem to emit a pale sickly blue. Your first thought is liable to be a red flag: This is going to be one depressing flick.

Then as the plot develops -- hard as it is to follow in its details -- we come to know them surprisingly well, the two of them. Rylance takes on a certain pathetic charm with his scarred eyebrow and occasional stutter. And Kerry Fox lets her hair down, literally, and we can see the self-knowledge and the desire in her big blue New Zealand eyes. They become likable.

In many ways the most admirable person important to the story is Timothy Spall as Kerry's husband, the Hitchcockian cab driver. He's not particularly bright and he trusts people a bit too much. And, man, he looks unprepossessing. But he's gregarious, generous, good-natured, and as harmless as a child. When he discovers that Rylance and Fox have been boffing each other, what does he do? Does he pick up a gun and spray lead. Does he do a plastic-surgery number on Rylance's face? Nope. He goes round to Rylance's bar, has a beer, and tells Rylance that he loves his wife. And that every day he loves her more. Later, when Fox prompts him to ventilate his anger over her affair, all he can come up with is something like, "I don't care about that s***! What really bothers me is that you're a lousy actress and will never be anything else!" When he's done shouting, she replies, "You don't even know how to hurt me." There are other characters in the story too -- children, an ex-wife, somebody named Victor with a Scots accent, and a gay French bartender who philosophizes a lot. (I wonder if the writers had a particular model in mind.) Next to Kerry's husband, the French guy is about the most articulate of the bunch.

But that's the problem with the movie. I was frankly lost at times. I honestly don't know how Spall's character found out about his wife's affair. Evidently she confirmed suspicions he already had, but since the scene doesn't appear on screen we have to guess. In fact, if the love scenes are speechless, the rest of the script isn't much better. More than once a character says to another, "I can't understand a word you're saying." Sometimes I couldn't either. "We shouldn't be gay because someone died." "Nobody died." "I died once. It was the only day I could tell the whole truth." I think we're in "Last Year at Marienbad" territory here. A shouting match between Rylance and Kerry in the basement theater made no sense to me at all. It reminded me of my marriage.

I recommend it though. It's a rare movie made for adults. It's a challenging drama about lives that are either half empty or half full, depending on how you look at them. The ending is sad, but we are at least left with the hope that these characters can mend their tattered lives and get on with things.

Intimacy.......2007-03-09

Hated it. Was not what I thought it would be. Very dissapointed.

"We better not go too far, we'll loose money" is the bottom line in Hollywood. .......2006-01-18

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. Sex is a temporary answer to a permanent problem, and until they reach out for something more neither will be happy.
The film had an increasing energy which I liked, and I'm sure you would like it too, if you let yourself inside the film.

Average customer rating:

Too Young to Die

ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Product Description

REVIEW: Tender and amazing portrait of two 72 year old Korean lovers. Very intimate documentary style love story. Sitting together fighting in a small bathtub like children. Their courting, games and fights are portrayed as if they didn't know there was a camera. Same goes for the explicit sex scenes, it is possible to be explicit and tender. [IMDB - Jean-Paul] SYNOPSIS: A man and woman in their early seventies meet, fall in love, and rediscover sex. They tease and learn from each other, argue over trivial matters, and make love over and over again, just like a couple in their twenties. Based on a true story. ++++ DVD FEATURES: This officially licensed release from South Korea is All-Region NTSC Code 0 (playable worldwide) with 16:9 Wide Screen display; DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 Sound in KOREAN with optional (removable) English and Chinese subtitles. ADDED FEATURES: Making film, Making Poster, Interview, Music Video, Trailer.

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