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Intimacy (2001)

Intimacy poster
Directed by
Patrice Chéreau
Genre
drama film, erotic film
Country
United Kingdom, France
Runtime
1h 57m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 554 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two strangers meet regularly for anonymous sexual encounters in a London flat. As they begin to learn about each other's lives, the arrangement starts to shift into something more complicated.

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What happens

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, featuring a soundtrack of pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s. Intimacy contains an unsimulated fellatio scene by Fox on Rylance. A French-dubbed version features voice actors Jean-Hugues Anglade and Nathalie Richard. The film has been associated with the New French Extremity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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