Intimacy 2001

Critics score:
65 / 100

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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: What makes it worth seeing isn't the sin but the scintillating acting. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Intimacy is not afraid to say that life, like sex, is often messy and unfulfilling. Read more

Marta Barber, Miami Herald: A film with a few floundering moments that becomes a powerful description of what it means to be intimate. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A real exploration of modern sensuality, brilliantly written and acted, powerfully directed, done with raw honesty and high style. Read more

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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Intimacy gives us beautifully acted melodrama and angst, instead of answers. Read more

Tom Sime, Dallas Morning News: It's when the actors are working at a deeper, wordless level that Intimacy really distinguishes itself. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: The movie has physical honesty, and reaches for emotional honesty, too. Read more

Kevin Maynard, Mr. Showbiz: Intimacy feeds on its achingly honest lead performances. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: The exceptional performances by all concerned ... give heft and dimension to the movie's ambiguities and blank spaces. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Although Intimacy is a triumph for all concerned, it is especially so for the multitalented Chereau. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: There is an interesting story here, but the movie circles it at a distance. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Despite the efforts of Kureishi, Chereau and co-screenwriter Anne-Louise Trividic to make us believe in its realism. Toward the end, there are too many speeches. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The result is a series of accretions to a narrative full of atmosphere that engulfs the characters without giving them adequate motivation or dramatic necessity for what they do. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Intimacy is a raw, wounding, powerfully acted film, and you cannot look away from it. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: [Chereau] has a loving eye, filming his actors with an intimacy that never exploits. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Searching for closure, the movie lurches from one unconvincing emotional confrontation to the next. Read more