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Intimacy
Intimacy
	French theatrical release poster
Directed by	Patrice Chéreau
Screenplay by	Anne-Louise Trividic; Patrice Chéreau;
Based on	Intimacy; by Hanif Kureishi
Produced by	Patrick Cassavetti; Jacques Hinstin;
Starring	Kerry Fox; Mark Rylance; Timothy Spall; Philippe Calvario; Alastair Galbraith; Marianne Faithfull;
Cinematography	Eric Gautier
Edited by	François Gédigier
Music by	Éric Neveux [fr]
Production; companies	Téléma; StudioCanal; Arte France Cinéma; France 2 Cinéma; WDR/Arte; Mikado Film; Azor Films;
Distributed by	BAC Films (France); Pathé Distribution (United Kingdom); Prokino Filmverleih (Germany); Mikado Film (Italy);
Release dates	20 January 2001 (Sundance); 28 March 2001 (France); 4 May 2001 (Italy); 7 June 2001 (Germany); 27 July 2001 (United Kingdom);
Running time	107 minutes; 119 minutes (France);
Countries	France; United Kingdom; Germany; Italy;
Language	English
Box office	$2.7 million

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Intimacy is a 2001 erotic drama film directed by Patrice Chéreau from a screenplay he co-wrote with Anne-Louise Trividic, based on stories by Hanif Kureishi (who also wrote a novel of the same title). It stars Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance. The film is an international co-production between France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy,^[2] featuring a soundtrack of pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s. Intimacy contains an unsimulated fellatio scene by Fox on Rylance.^[3]^[4] A French-dubbed version features voice actors Jean-Hugues Anglade and Nathalie Richard.

The film has been associated with the New French Extremity.^[5]

Plot[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 intense weekly sex with a woman whose name he does not know. At first, their relationship is purely physical, but he develops an emotional attachment to 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 and a son. Subsequently, she makes it clear to Jay that she will not leave her family, and won't see him anymore.

Cast[edit]

Kerry Fox as Claire
Mark Rylance as Jay
Susannah Harker as Susan, Jay's wife
Alastair Galbraith as Victor
Philippe Calvario as Ian
Timothy Spall as Andy, Claire's husband
Marianne Faithfull as Betty
Fraser Ayres as Dave
Michael Fitzgerald as bar owner
Robert Addie as bar owner
Rebecca Palmer as Pam, girl in squat

Reception[edit]

Intimacy was placed at 91 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s.^[6]

In a 2001 lengthy column for The Guardian, Alexander Linklater described the jealousy he experienced when his partner Kerry Fox took the real-sex role in this movie. Linklater concludes that he accepted the unsimulated oral scene, but he insists that the sexual intercourse is an illusion.^[3] Nevertheless, critics have declared its realist tendencies. Linda Williams, for instance, writes that "Intimacy opens with urgent, hurried and explicit penetrative sex"^[7] and Tanya Krzywinska writes that in this first scene "the spectator is left in little doubt that penetration has occurred".^[8]

In a 2015 interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mark Rylance spoke of his experience on the film. At the time of the film's release, talk of the film's unsimulated sex scenes in tabloids added stress on his marriage. Rylance commented, "It soured me on my life two months. It’s my mistake, but I felt Patrice [Chéreau] put undue pressure on me on set to do that. And at that point I didn’t have the confidence as a film actor to say no. Now I think a lot of actors that people say are difficult are actually just being sensible.”^[9]

Awards[edit]

Intimacy won the Golden Bear for Best Film and the Silver Bear for Best Actress (Kerry Fox) at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001.^[10]

References[edit]

^ "Intimacy (2001)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
^ "Intimité (2002)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 9 March 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Dangerous liaisons". TheGuardian.com. 22 June 2001.
^ "Intimacy". whatculture.com. 14 February 2016. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021.
^ Quandt, James (February 2004). "Flesh & blood: sex and violence in recent French cinema". Artforum. Archived from the original on 10 August 2004. Retrieved 10 July 2008.
^ "Best of the Aughts: Film". Slant Magazine. 7 February 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
^ Williams, Linda (22 April 2008). "Hard-Core Art Film: The Contemporary Realm of the Senses". issuu.com. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
^ Tulloch, John; Middleweek, Belinda (2017). Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema. Oxford University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0190244613.
^ Goldman, Andrew (5 March 2015). "Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance Star in PBS Masterpiece's 'Wolf Hall'". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
^ "Prizes & Honours 2001". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 11 October 2022.

External links[edit]

[1] "Intimacy (2001)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 18 April 2022.

[2] "Intimité (2002)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 9 March 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2022.

[:0-3] "Dangerous liaisons". TheGuardian.com. 22 June 2001.

[4] "Intimacy". whatculture.com. 14 February 2016. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021.

[jq-5] Quandt, James (February 2004). "Flesh & blood: sex and violence in recent French cinema". Artforum. Archived from the original on 10 August 2004. Retrieved 10 July 2008.

[6] "Best of the Aughts: Film". Slant Magazine. 7 February 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2010.

[7] Williams, Linda (22 April 2008). "Hard-Core Art Film: The Contemporary Realm of the Senses". issuu.com. Retrieved 30 January 2022.

[8] Tulloch, John; Middleweek, Belinda (2017). Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema. Oxford University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0190244613.

[9] Goldman, Andrew (5 March 2015). "Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance Star in PBS Masterpiece's 'Wolf Hall'". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 11 October 2022.

[10] "Prizes & Honours 2001". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 11 October 2022.

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-| cinematography = Francois Gedigier
+| cinematography = [[Eric Gautier]]
-| editing        = Karen Lindsay-Stewart
+| editing        = François Gédigier
-| music          = Éric Neveux
+| music          = {{ill|Éric Neveux|fr}}
 | studio         = {{ubl|Téléma|[[StudioCanal]]|[[Arte France Cinéma]]|[[France 2 Cinéma]]|[[Westdeutscher Rundfunk|WDR]]/[[Arte]]|Mikado Film|Azor Films}}
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-'''''Intimacy''''' is a 2001 [[Erotic film|erotic]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film directed by [[Patrice Chéreau]] from a screenplay he co-wrote with Anne-Louise Trividic, based on stories by [[Hanif Kureishi]] (who also wrote a [[Intimacy (novel)|novel of the same title]]). It stars [[Kerry Fox]] and [[Mark Rylance]]. The film is an international co-production between France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b83f8840c |title=Intimité (2002) |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref> featuring a soundtrack of pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s. ''Intimacy'' contains an [[Unsimulated sex|unsimulated]] [[fellatio]] scene by Fox on Rylance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/jun/22/features.features11|title=Dangerous liaisons|date=22 June 2001}}</ref><ref>[http://whatculture.com/film/17-sex-scenes-that-supposedly-werent-simulated?page=11 What Culture#8]: Intimacy</ref> A French-dubbed version features voice actors [[Jean-Hugues Anglade]] and [[Nathalie Richard]].
+'''''Intimacy''''' is a 2001 [[Erotic film|erotic]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film directed by [[Patrice Chéreau]] from a screenplay he co-wrote with Anne-Louise Trividic, based on stories by [[Hanif Kureishi]] (who also wrote a [[Intimacy (novel)|novel of the same title]]). It stars [[Kerry Fox]] and [[Mark Rylance]]. The film is an international co-production between France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b83f8840c |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309223501/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b83f8840c |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 March 2017 |title=Intimité (2002) |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref> featuring a soundtrack of pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s. ''Intimacy'' contains an [[Unsimulated sex|unsimulated]] [[fellatio]] scene by Fox on Rylance.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/jun/22/features.features11|title=Dangerous liaisons|website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=22 June 2001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=February 14, 2016 |title=Intimacy |url=http://whatculture.com/film/17-sex-scenes-that-supposedly-werent-simulated?page=11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206183006/https://whatculture.com/film/17-sex-scenes-that-supposedly-werent-simulated?page=11 |archive-date=December 6, 2021 |website=whatculture.com}}</ref> A French-dubbed version features voice actors [[Jean-Hugues Anglade]] and [[Nathalie Richard]].
-The film has been associated with the [[New French Extremity]].<ref name=jq>Quandt, James, "Flesh & Blood: Sex and violence in recent French cinema", ''ArtForum'', February 2004 [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_42/ai_113389507] Access date: 10 July 2008.</ref>
+The film has been associated with the [[New French Extremity]].<ref name="jq">{{Cite journal |last=Quandt |first=James |date=February 2004 |title=Flesh & blood: sex and violence in recent French cinema |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_42/ai_113389507 |url-status=dead |journal=Artforum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040810004736/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_42/ai_113389507 |archive-date=August 10, 2004 |access-date=July 10, 2008}}</ref>
 ==Plot==
-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.
+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 intense weekly sex with a woman whose name he does not know. At first, their relationship is purely physical, but he develops an emotional attachment to 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 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 sex sessions of their previous encounters.
+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 and a son. Subsequently, she makes it clear to Jay that she will not leave her family, and won't see him anymore.
 ==Cast==
-* [[Mark Rylance]] as Jay
 * [[Kerry Fox]] as Claire
+* [[Mark Rylance]] as Jay
 * [[Susannah Harker]] as Susan, Jay's wife
-* [[Alastair Galbraith (actor)|Alastair Galbraith]] as Victor
+* Alastair Galbraith as Victor
-* [[Philippe Calvario]] as Ian
+* Philippe Calvario as Ian
 * [[Timothy Spall]] as Andy, Claire's husband
 * [[Marianne Faithfull]] as Betty
 * [[Fraser Ayres]] as Dave
-* [[Michael Fitzgerald (actor)|Michael Fitzgerald]] as bar owner
+* Michael Fitzgerald as bar owner
 * [[Robert Addie]] as bar owner
-* [[Rebecca Palmer]] as Pam, girl in squat
+* Rebecca Palmer as Pam, girl in squat
 ==Reception==
-''Intimacy'' was placed at 91 on ''Slant Magazine'''s best films of the 2000s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/best-of-the-aughts-film/216/page_1|work=[[Slant Magazine]]|access-date=10 February 2010|title=Best of the Aughts: Film}}</ref>
+''Intimacy'' was placed at 91 on ''[[Slant Magazine]]'''s best films of the 2000s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/best-of-the-aughts-film/216/page_1|work=[[Slant Magazine]]|access-date=10 February 2010|title=Best of the Aughts: Film|date=7 February 2010 }}</ref>
-In a 2001 lengthy column for ''[[The Guardian]]'', Alexander Linklater described the jealousy he experienced when his partner [[Kerry Fox]] took the real-sex role in this movie. Linklater concludes that he accepted the unsimulated oral scene, but he insists that the sexual intercourse is an illusion.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dangerous liaisons |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/jun/22/features.features11 |work=www.theguardian.com |access-date=2022-01-30 }}</ref> Nevertheless, critics have declared its realist tendencies. Linda Williams, for instance, writes that "[[Intimacy]] opens with urgent, hurried and explicit penetrative sex"<ref>{{cite web |title=Linda Williams "Hard-Core Art Film: The Contemporary Realm of the Senses" |url=https://issuu.com/macba_publicacions/docs/qp_13_williams |work=issuu.com |access-date=2022-01-30 }}</ref> and Tanya Krzywinska writes that in this first scene "the spectator is left in little doubt that penetration has occurred".<ref>{{Google books|ZZ43DwAAQBAJ|Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema, p. 97|page=97}}</ref>
+In a 2001 lengthy column for ''[[The Guardian]]'', Alexander Linklater described the jealousy he experienced when his partner [[Kerry Fox]] took the real-sex role in this movie. Linklater concludes that he accepted the unsimulated oral scene, but he insists that the sexual intercourse is an illusion.<ref name=":0" /> Nevertheless, critics have declared its realist tendencies. [[Linda Williams (film scholar)|Linda Williams]], for instance, writes that "''Intimacy'' opens with urgent, hurried and explicit penetrative sex"<ref>{{cite web |last=Williams |first=Linda |author-link=Linda Williams (film scholar) |date=April 22, 2008 |title=Hard-Core Art Film: The Contemporary Realm of the Senses |url=https://issuu.com/macba_publicacions/docs/qp_13_williams |access-date=2022-01-30 |work=issuu.com}}</ref> and Tanya Krzywinska writes that in this first scene "the spectator is left in little doubt that penetration has occurred".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Tulloch |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZ43DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 |title=Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema |last2=Middleweek |first2=Belinda |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-0190244613 |pages=97 |language=en}}</ref>
+In a 2015 interview with ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', Mark Rylance spoke of his experience on the film. At the time of the film's release, talk of the film's unsimulated sex scenes in tabloids added stress on his marriage. Rylance commented, "It soured me on my life two months. It’s my mistake, but I felt Patrice [Chéreau] put undue pressure on me on set to do that. And at that point I didn’t have the confidence as a film actor to say no. Now I think a lot of actors that people say are difficult are actually just being sensible.”<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goldman |first=Andrew |date=2015-03-05 |title=Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance Star in PBS Masterpiece's 'Wolf Hall' |language=en-US |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/damian-lewis-and-mark-rylance-star-in-pbs-masterpieces-wolf-hall-1425587807 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2022-10-11 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref>
 ==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.
+''Intimacy'' won the [[Golden Bear]] for Best Film and the [[Silver Bear for Best Actress]] ([[Kerry Fox]]) at the [[Berlin Film Festival]] in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prizes & Honours 2001 |url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/archive/jahresarchive/2001/03_preistraeger_2001/03_preistraeger_2001.html |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.berlinale.de |language=en}}</ref>
 ==See also==
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 ==References==
 {{Reflist}}
+== Further reading ==
+* Frey, Mattias. (2016) ''Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today’s Art Film Culture''. London: Rutgers University Press.
+* Krzywinska, Tanya. (2006) ''Sex and the Cinema''. London: Wallflower.
+* Palmer, Tim. (2011) ''Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema''. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
+* Williams, Linda. (2007) ‘Hard-Core Art Film: The Contemporary Realm of the Senses’, ''Quaderns portàtils'', (13), pp.&nbsp;1–20.
 ==External links==
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