Alastair Galbraith, Fraser Ayres, Kerry Fox

She comes to his bed-sit every Wednesday afternoon. They don't speak. They don't even know each other's name. But something passes between them as their bodies converge and passion ignites in the dim,...( read more  read more... ) carpeted silence of his basement bedroom. He has left his wife and family. Her story: a mystery, a puzzle waiting to be penetrated and unraveled. Their union: rife with longing and desire, an impermanent compulsion coiled in a fundamental need to reach out and connect with another person, another body.

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68 critics

DVD Release Date: January 6, 2004

Stats: 110 reviews

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  • October 9, 2009
    My ridiculous decision...to form a one-night stand course of actions,break the norms by activating emotions and ultimately,reverse my fortune's bastardization by puking truthful sequences.What's the point from the beginning is there's no remorse,no maliciousness.Brilliant Dogme a...( read more)ngles,I love you Kerry Fox....
  • November 26, 2009
    I didn't think I was going to, but I liked it. Mark Rylance plays his role with great subtility. Finally, a hard hitting character study.
  • November 9, 2009
    Patrice Chéreau?s Intimacy pulsates with desperate, miserable passion. Having up and left his wife and kids, Jay (a magnificent Mark Rylance) spends his nights working as chief bartender at a trendy club and his days lounging about his decrepit apartment. On Wednesday afternoons,...( read more) however, this monotonous routine is interrupted by a mysterious stranger named Claire (the stunning Kerry Fox) who shows up to screw him without saying a word.
  • October 31, 2009
    Very realistic and great
  • September 14, 2009
    Unnecessary terrible acting, very weak, pretentious, uninteresting, amateur, unbearable, not believable, and the list goes on... No talent whatsoever (uncut version).

    33/100
  • September 13, 2009
    Claire ve Jay Çar?amba günleri bulu?uyorlard?. Yaln?zca sevi?mek için... Konu?madan, birbirlerinin vücutlar?n? ve arzular?n? payla?arak. Bir gün Claire ortalarda gözükmedi. .. Jay onun hakk?nda asl?nda hiçbir ?ey bilmedi?ini ve gizemli sevgilisini ne kadar çok merak etti?ini fark...( read more) etti.

    ??ki bedenin payla?abilece?i en büyük giz; bedenlerin birbirine yabanc? olmas?d?r. A?ks?z bir seks; ihtiyaca, iste?e ve kötü bir al??kanl??a dönü?ür. ?
  • September 6, 2009
    This is a surprisingly compelling film. Surprising, because a viewer may expect only to be titillated, or perhaps to be bored. Kerry Fox is alert and brilliantly self-contained as Claire, also hot in her nudity and sex scenes.
    French director Patrice Chéreau looks upon these cha...( read more)racters with a complexity of vision and the candor available to an outsider. He understands both the value and danger of anonymous erotic encounters. Each succeeding sex scene in the film reveals less, physically, and more, emotionally, about the characters.
  • July 27, 2009
    Unlikable characters, uninteresting sex, lotsa nudity however.
  • February 12, 2009
    The problem of sin, how it destroys.
  • February 11, 2009
    Berlin Film Festival 01' Golden Bear

Critic Reviews


October 5, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

Pulsates with desperate, miserable passion. full review

January 17, 2002
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Its somber ruminations on passion and desire, marriage and aloneness, resonate with unmistakable force. full review

October 29, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Intimacy dares to cut deep, and its daring gets to you. full review

October 28, 2001
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

Intimacy gives us beautifully acted melodrama and angst, instead of answers. full review

October 28, 2001
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Intimacy is a raw, wounding, powerfully acted film, and you cannot look away from it. full review

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