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Intimacy is a 2001 France/United Kingdom/Germany/Spain drama film by Patrice Chéreau and written by Patrice Chéreau, Anne-Louise Trividic and Hanif Kureishi.

It won 2 Bears (Golden Bear for 'best movie' and Silver Bear for 'best actress' (Kerry Fox) at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001.

Plot

Jay (Mark Rylance) is a London bartender who has casual sex with a mysterious woman (Kerry Fox) every Wednesday. He becomes more curious about her life and begins watching her every move when they are apart. This has unintended consequences on their relationship.

More detailed:

Intimacy is a story about a bartender (former musician until his first son arrived) who left his family because his wife lost interest in both him and their sexual relationship. Their relationship failed as their jobs prevented them from spending enough time together- he worked at night while she worked during the day.

Now living alone in a decrepit house, he has casual weekly sex with an anonymous woman. They do not speak much. He doesn't even know her name. At first, their relationship is purely phsyical. However, he begins to fall in love with her as he thinks she is special. She is indeed, because of her extraordinarily uncomplicated way of dealing with this situation.

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 theater pub where she is working as an actress in the evenings. (she is also a teacher for acting, dreaming and playing roles after being an ordinary housewife during daytime). Unbeknownst to her, Jay learns that she has a warmhearted (but rather fanciless) husband (Timothy Spall) and a son. Subsequently, he breaks up the relationship immediately, as he thinks of his own sons, whom he loves and misses so much. Also Claire cannot continue when she learns by accident about what Jay has found out.

It is a tragedy that they have to give up their relationship from a moral point of view, they are mature enough not to hurt innocent nice people and family structures, although both of them had needed each other so much, physically, but even more emotionally.

The film is about love (understanding without words), moral values, duties, broken dreams, theatre life, not about sex without soul (otherwise Jay would be more happy when a twenty-year-old girl seduces him), though the film is very graphic and contains sex/nudity (that will not distract a mature audience).

Note

The music includes hot London hits of the seventies and eighties, e.g. of David Bowie
The film is considered controversial because of some extremely explicit sex scenes.

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