Intimacy [Blu-ray]

I'd heard about this movie through word of mouth (Amanda Palmer recommended it highly, and I love her taste so there you go), and it was everything I thought it would be -- emotionally draining, beautifully filmed, and powerful on so many levels. Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox give us stellar turns as the once-a-week lovers who meet in a grotty flat for sex that somehow manages to be passionate and detached at the same time, and when Rylance starts wanting to know more about Fox (almost against his will), the movie becomes something amazing. Timothy Spall is absolutely marvelous as Fox's cuckolded husband, and the scene where he and Rylance play billiards and talk about cheating spouses cannot be missed.Yes, there's nudity, and a fair amount of simulated sex, and kudos has to be given to Rylance for playing what must have been a physiologically challenging role. But the contrast of these two people, who are so physically open with each other and yet so emotionally cut off, is a beautiful essay on the problems of intimacy. Excellent work all around.

I think this movie is worth seeing if you want to. You must be into these kind of movies to aprecaite the level behind these movies. Although i did not give this movie a "5" star rating it is becasue when i bought it i was expecting somthing more. Do research before you see this movie, you'll be glad you did. Also this movie is very explicite and should only be seen by 17+. Which if your a teenager trying to see this movie, please see other like it. For example Romance, Antanomy of hell and of course 9 songs.BE ADVISED ALL OF THESE MOVIES ARE EXPLICITE AND SHOULD ONLY BEE SEEN BY ADULTS!!In short veiwers i like the movie but when i bought it it lacked a certain somthing. The scenes are good and the plot sucks but the only reason i bought this movie is so i could add it to my collection.Thank you.

acting superb, but too much of everything else. brave actors, tho.

Our days. Dirty quarter of London. She comes to him every week on Wednesday, late in the evening just for the sake of sex - quick, desperate and hopeless.Both are not so young. They did this, almost without speaking, for a whole hour, and sometimes more. She then leaves without promising to come again next Wednesday, and he did not ask her about it.However, at the same time just a week she comes over and is not coming in the house, immediately sent to the basement, where he just dropped to the floor and a pair of well-worn carpet blankets.But one Wednesday she does not come at the appointed hour, and he wonders what he knows about all of his silent partner? Who is She? What to do? Where to live? Does she have a family? And in a week when she did appear, he begins to quietly follow her ......

Just imagine what the Trevor Howard / Celia Johnson would [could?] have been like IF they had this freedom???Also imagine the make-up artist ['hair' dresser?]; and the, err .... focus puller on this one's set ......No, no, no! Although rather brave - who the heck cares? It's all very natural and somewhat vaguely contemporary, but really - WHY bother? As our beloved Peter Finch [I think] said in "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" - here come those boring old T..s again!"As for safe sex? [The lady during a half-pant or two - breathlessly demands 'protection' from the, err..'intruder' .... UNREALISTIC, regarding the intensity of their meeting{s}, and their obsession with each other's body parts].Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey were by far more interesting in their plastic raincoats on a windswept beach [ditto Kerr and Lancaster].Brando/Schneider also Bogard/Rampling were FAR more tortured in their versions along the same theme.then ... we WILL always have "Intermezzo"/"In the Realm of the Senses".

Mark Rylance is my god. I ordered this DVD so that I could see just how miraculously he can adapt to film from live theater. But no where in the listing did it say that the version I ordered was in Spanish, which I do not speak or read. Bummer. The seller was very nice though--he refunded my payment and said to keep the DVD. But now I don't know what the amazing Mark is saying! Damn!

Looks good we can definitely do business in the future

This a different movie. It is an adult themed movie and I love Mark Rylance!

Da vedere

Very graphic movie with a good cast well acted

カタカナで「インティマシー親密」とある作品はDVDプレーヤーで再生できますが、英語で「Intimacy」とある作品はDVDプレーヤーで再生できません。

If you haven't seen this film and you are a grown adult and are in a relationship or have had a relationship, then watch it.It is very moving, and very sexy and graphic but although far from tender, it is touching. Lust, love and recriminations, in all their messy jumble. By the end I felt sorrowful for the protagonists, all of whom had missed some opportunity. Perhaps love is the drug to warm and make us forget....for a short while, before reality beaches us again on a desolate cold shore.

Il ne s'agit pas d'un film érotique, mais d'un magnifique hommage au désir. Et à la nécessité de le vivre. Des corps nus qui se cherchent et font l'amour sans discourir sur le désir. Quand il est l'essence de la vie, et qu'il faut l'assouvir, il n'est pas besoin d'en dire beaucoup. D'une manière ou d'une autre, il faut bien qu'il s'exprime et qu'il s'affirme malgré les conventions et schémas imposés. Bien sûr, la femme se heurte à l'incompréhension des hommes de sa vie ; du mari à l'amant, qui ne peuvent s'approprier ce qui leur échappe alors même que les travers auxquels ils se confrontent sont ceux auxquels ils sont eux même acculés. Une femme cantonnée à un rôle/une place définie construit son quotidien en "traitant" littéralement avec les cadres imposés et ceux qu'elle se choisit. Au-delà de transiger, il y a l'impératif à être, ceci totalement... une femme "normale". Une histoire subtile et engagée. Un bel hommage.