Intimacy (film)

Intimacy

Directed by	Patrice Chéreau
Produced by	Patrick Cassavetti Jacques Hinstin Charles Gassot
Screenplay by	Anne-Louise Trividic Patrice Chéreau
Based on	Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Starring	Mark Rylance Kerry Fox Alastair Galbraith Susannah Harker Timothy Spall
Music by	Eric Neveux
Cinematography	Francois Gedigier
Edited by	Karen Lindsay-Stewart
Distributed by	Empire Pictures Inc.
Release dates	23 November 2001
Running time	119 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$405,094^[1]

Intimacy is a 2001 British film directed by Patrice Chéreau, starring Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox.

Intimacy is an international co-production among production companies in France, the U.K., Germany, and Spain featuring a soundtrack of pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s. It was written by Chéreau with Anne-Louise Trividic, based on stories by Hanif Kureishi (who also wrote a novel of the same title). This mainstream-defined film contains an unsimulated fellatio scene by Fox on Rylance.^[2] A French-dubbed version features voice actors Jean-Hugues Anglade and Nathalie Richard.

The film has been associated with the New French Extremity.^[3]

Plot

Jay (Rylance) 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 (Fox), whose name he doesn't know. At first, their relationship is purely physical, but he eventually falls in love with her.

Wanting to know more about her, Jay follows her across the streets of London to the grey suburbs where she lives. He then follows her to a pub theatre where she is working as an actress in the evenings. Jay learns that her name is Claire, and she has a husband (Timothy Spall) and a son. Subsequently it is made clear to Jay that Claire will not leave her family. They meet for a final time, and have sex with an intimacy that has been missing during the illicit sex sessions of their previous encounters.

Cast

Mark Rylance - Jay
Kerry Fox - Claire
Susannah Harker - Susan, Jay's wife
Alastair Galbraith - Victor
Philippe Calvario^[4] - Ian
Timothy Spall - Andy
Marianne Faithfull - Betty
Fraser Ayres - Dave
Michael Fitzgerald - Bar owner
Robert Addie - Bar owner

Reception

Intimacy was placed at 91 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s.^[5]

Awards

Intimacy won the Golden Bear for Best Film and the Silver Bear for Best Actress (Kerry Fox) at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001.

References

↑ Box Office Mojo
↑ http://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/jun/22/features.features11
↑ Quandt, James, "Flesh & Blood: Sex and violence in recent French cinema", ArtForum, February 2004 Access date: July 10, 2008.
↑ fr:Philippe Calvario
↑ "Best of the Aughts: Film". Slant Magazine. Retrieved February 10, 2010.

External links

Intimacy at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Patrice Chéreau

La Chair de l'orchidée (1975) Judith Therpauve (1978) L'Homme blessé (1983) Hôtel de France (1986) Contre l'oubli (1991) Queen Margot (1994) Dans la solitude des champs de coton (1996, TV version). * Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998) Intimacy (2001) His Brother (2003) Gabrielle (2005) Persécution (2009)

Golden Bear-winning films

Four in a Jeep (1951)
Without Leaving an Address (1951)
In Beaver Valley (1951)
Justice Is Done (1951)
Cinderella (1951)
One Summer of Happiness (1952)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
Die Ratten (1955)
Invitation to the Dance (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1958)
Les Cousins (1959)
El Lazarillo de Tormes (1960)
La Notte (1961)
A Kind of Loving (1962)
To Bed or Not to Bed (1963)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Dry Summer (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Cul-de-sac (1966)
The Departure (1967)
Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
Early Works (1969)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Distant Thunder (1973)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Adoption (1975)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
The Ascent (1977)
Ascensor (1978)
Las truchas (1978)
What Max Said (1978)
David (1979)
Heartland (1980)
Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
Deprisa, Deprisa (1981)
Veronika Voss (1982)
Ascendancy (1983)
La colmena (1983)
Love Streams (1984)
The Woman and the Stranger (1985)
Wetherby (1985)
Stammheim (1986)
The Theme (1987)
Red Sorghum (1988)
Rain Man (1989)
Music Box (1990)
Larks on a String (1990)
The House of Smiles (1991)
Grand Canyon (1992)
Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993)
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
In the Name of the Father (1994)
The Bait (1995)
Sense and Sensibility (1996)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1997)
Central Station (1998)
The Thin Red Line (1999)
Magnolia (2000)
Intimacy (2001)
Spirited Away (2002)
Bloody Sunday (2002)
In This World (2003)
Head-On (2004)
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
Grbavica (2006)
Tuya's Marriage (2007)
Elite Squad (2008)
The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
Honey (2010)
A Separation (2011)
Caesar Must Die (2012)
Child's Pose (2013)
Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Taxi (2015)
Fire at Sea (2016)

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