Would you want to watch this on your own? INTIMACY is really an art house porn film that has no redeeming features for anyone who watches films for entertainment purposes and is especially frustrating for budding screenwriters who find their scripts turned down because " The plot is underdeveloped ".
Starts well enough. Had a fair amount of intrigue, but just when you think the movie is going to kick up a notch, it goes in a dull, pointless direction. From then on it drifts and ultimately goes nowhere. Good performance by Kerry Fox. Mark Rylance is irritating, however. Picture your life this way if you can: You are a regular bloke. You work as a bartender in a pub. Your wife has left you and has custody over your two kids. Your friends are a gay and a totally whacked out stoner.
The only thing you look forward to, is the afternoon of Wednesdays. That's when an annonymous female stranger knocks on your door, enters your home and the both of you have sex. Just sex. Nothing else. You don't even talk to each other. Just plain humping. And she leaves after that, leaving you basking in orgasmic pleasure. Not just one sex scene, but plenty in between. Nothing fancy, just straight to the point humping. Things start to get complicated when you try to find out more about the life of this stranger, and the viewer is presented the background, motives and rationale behind the two lead characters.
That's it. With one final hump, the movie ends. Far, far better than I had expected from the little I had heard not having read the numerous IMDb reviews until just now. Harsh, explicit and uncompromising, this film hardly welcomes with open arms. In fact nobody in the London as depicted seems to even dare to open their arms, except the two main protagonists, and they dare not open their hearts.
It is in many ways a desperate and cynical film but unfortunately the squalor and general air of intolerance is only too familiar. There are, however, glimpses of the humanity beneath the surface that enables a city like London, the people of a crowded, selfish city like London to relate, however briefly, however seemingly meaninglessly, to each other. We do not live in times where there is too much time or opportunity we must grab our pleasures, indeed our needs when we can.
Desperate, yes but uncaring, no and indeed a most ambitious attempt to illustrate the true nature of many relationships and the struggle for freedom and gratification when everyone is cheek by jowl and in direct competition.
Brave perceptive film making. The film explores the "why" of their peculiar relationship and follows the pair of protags to their inevitable conclusion. Whatever you know, think, or read about this film, it does break new ground as it pushes legitimate cinema one small measure toward its destiny by illuminating that dark corner of human behavior currently occupied only by pornography.
Not for prudes, "Intimacy" will be most enjoyed by mature drama enthusiasts. MovieAddict 21 August I expected much more from "Intimacy. I was wrong: it really is a mediocre movie. The main problem is that we just don't care about the characters at all, I suppose. This could be compensated for by a strong director or interesting script, but it has neither. It's an independent film and the standards of film-making are simply just OK.
Not all great low-budget films have likable characters but when you have one so ugly, it helps to make up for it by at least having characters we can relate to. Good example: "The Panic in Needle Park. But "Intimacy" isn't the same. It's about a family guy who dumps his wife and kids and becomes a bartender at a London pub. He meets an anonymous woman for sex every week in a dirty apartment in a bad area. The movie doesn't work as an art-house experiment because it's neither artsy nor experimental.
It pretends to be by showcasing those famous "lingering" shots that's become really tiring since every indie filmmaker decided it was a sign of talent and originality. It's not experimental because it follows the guidelines in terms of direction, cinematography and acting.
It's not erotic because the sex scenes are dull and Kerry Fox is, to be totally honest, an ugly woman. Which is the point - it makes the story more realistic - but all the same it also makes it un-erotic. I think women would probably say the same about the male lead - and I hate to be the first person to point it out, but in regards to the infamous "real" sex scenes in the film It's not deep because it's so basic - we get to see the lack of morality in the leading characters.
Well whoop-dee-do, so what? You're likely to find much better films out there than this. In terms of independent cinema it's a big let-down because it seems like any major Hollywood film hiding underneath the mold of something it isn't. The story isn't anything special and has been done before, the acting is just so-so, the "erotic imagery" isn't erotic, the level of entertainment is about zilch.
All in all it comes across as a cheap imitator of "Last Tango in Paris," which is about a hundred times better and a much more prominent example of having unlikable characters in a movie that we can still feel a connection for. 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. Jay has left his wife and son a year ago, and lives a disordered life, working as a barman, and carrying some ambiguous relationships with a couple of friends. He meets weekly a woman, Claire, with which he has a pure sexual affair, without any communication, a la 'Last Tango in Paris'. Things start to go wrong in this affair, when apparently involved he follows and finds out the background of the woman, and befriends her husband and young son.
The film is not easy, and sometimes the border between complexity and confusion is crossed. However, the acting is so good that the characters are just alive. Life is confusing as well many times, after all. The film has many explicit sex scenes, and they have their place in the story line.
This film is to a big extend about communication, and sex is the main way of communication between Jay and Claire for much of the film. Will this be enough to sustain their relationship? Well, go and see the movie and you will find out. A couple, who barely know each other, meet every now and then for pornographic sex. Was this supposed to be a joke title? Is this Europe's "cinema Veriee"? Or perhaps "neo cinema Veriee"? Makes no difference what they call it, but it doesn't come off as particularly realistic.
Perhaps it's "neo Euro-trash porn". They tried to put porn into mainstream movies in the early 70s and it failed. And so it will fail this time, too, in spite of such talentless - and hence highly regarded - Eurotrash directors such as von Trier who propagate such junk.
I hardly think that showing a man's erection adds to the realism of a movie. What about the dialogue? On quite a few occasions the characters talk and interact in an unrealistic way; real people simply don't behave the way these characters do half of the time. Yet, there is a belief that just because Kerry Fox is actually shown putting her co-star's erection in her mouth that this will somehow add new dimensions to the realism of a movie, realism never seen before.
I think not. On the other hand, I always had the wish to see the seemingly impossible: a semi- famous actress in a pornographic scene. I can't say I wasn't pleased when Kerry Fox in one scene grabs her co-stars penis, and then even orally pleasures it briefly, unfortunately in another scene.
And it's rather nice that it was Kerry Fox who has had the dubious privilege of becoming one of extremely few known actresses to become a temporary porn star. Of course, I'd love to see Shirley MacLaine get it from behind, Elizabeth Taylor engage in masturbation, Susan Sarandon do it doggy-style, etc, but Fox is a pretty good choice, too.
Though, I must say, Fox looks more than a little embarrassed in the porn scenes. Considering she got some award in some meaningless little European festival, this is surprising. I mean, didn't the jury who awarded her notice her obvious lack of relaxedness during the sex scenes?
Lousy Eurotrash jury The movie isn't too boring. The hand-held camera shtick is quite tiresome at times - another hint that this director belongs to the Lars von Trier trash director's club of European losers. Losers The film would have been a shade weaker if it weren't for Fox's charisma. The male lead was ideally cast in "Institute Benjamenta", but rather badly cast this time around. There is also a character who plays a gay man - which seems to be a must in today's movies and sit-coms: every film and series has to have a homosexual, and it's almost always a happy-go-lucky smart-ass full of wise advice for the lead characters, who are of course straight.
And every courtroom scene nowadays has to have a black female judge, as if that will contribute to solving the problem of racism, but that's another story. How dumb does Kerry Fox have to be to be suckered into doing a porn film? People will respect you even more as an artist.
Red 1 January The movie stars Mark Rylance as Jay, the head barman at a club. Somehow, he has met Claire, played by Kerry Fox. To Jay's surprise, Claire reappears every Wednesday at his apartment to have sex with him. That's the only way to phrase it. They don't talk, and there's no foreplay. They just tear their clothes off and go at it.
There's plenty of nude scenes of both Fox and Rylance. However, it's not really erotic, because the apartment is so dirty and unkempt that all I could think of was "it's disgusting. The plot really begins at this point, and I will carefully avoid explaining what happens next.
I won't avoid saying that the plot appeared contrived and, basically, ridiculous. I wasn't familiar with the work of Kerry Fox, but she's an excellent actor. Rylance and Spall are great actors. It's hard to understand just what went wrong with this film. Some reviewers have suggested that director could have made a better movie in France than in England. Maybe we in the English-speaking world think that this bizarre plots works better if the actors are smoking Gauloises and drinking wine, rather than smoking Mayfairs and drinking ale.
If you really want to see this movie, you'll have to decide whether you want to see all the sex unrated version or just the suggestion of sex R-rated version. Perhaps the only difference between her and all the rest is that she's asking you for nothing. Sign In. Play trailer Drama Romance.
See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Home Video Trailer. Photos Top cast Edit. Mark Rylance Jay as Jay. Kerry Fox Claire as Claire. Alastair Galbraith Victor as Victor. Philippe Calvario Ian as Ian. Timothy Spall Andy as Andy. Marianne Faithfull Betty as Betty. Fraser Ayres Dave as Dave. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Jay is a bartender who abandoned his family because his wife lost interest in him and their relationship.
Now living alone in a decrepit house, he has casual weekly sex with an anonymous woman, whose name he does not know. At first, their relationship is purely physical, but he eventually falls in love with her. Wanting to know more about her, he follows her across the streets of London to the grey suburbs where she lives. Updated 2 years ago. About 0 Discussions 0 Change Requests. Star Melanie Anderson on Intimacy Torrent p. View the information you want to download.
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