Intimacy

* Casting, Acting : 7.5 * Script : 6.5 * Directing, Aura : 7.5 * Ease of Viewing : 6 * Naked Eye : 6.5

When this came out a big whoop-whoop was made about a couple of "real" actors (Rylance and Fox) getting naked and having actual sexual contact before the camera. Not much else is going on here, though... although it tries to make a few big statements about modern alienation and blah blah

Deserves points for Timothy Spall, whose solid performance is the main attraction , but there's the (once nagging, now obvious) feeling that, for all its attempts at being a serious story of alienation, with its explicit sex scenes, serious dialogue about emotions and a specialist selection of music played over scenes of drama, that its pretty conventional and uninteresting. Its a solid made film, but has little of reward, ending up as a bogstandard dramatic film rather than something profound.

"Not since Last Tango in Paris has a film so delicately explored the quiet unraveling of desire." - Ed Gonzalez

The lovers barely look one another in the eye, let alone speak. An air of puritanism prevails. No one is having much fun. It's all a bit hair-tearingly ridiculous, but that doesn't mean the viewer, at least, can have some fun.

good movie