Intimacy Movie Review 2000

Furtive and explicit; the first English-language pic from director Chereau. Jay (Rylance), who's walked away from his wife and kids, is managing a bar and living in a basement hovel. Unhappily married Claire (Fox) has sexual trysts with Jay every Wednesday afternoon, although neither seem interested in learning anything about one another. Then Jay decides to follow Claire and discovers she's married and an amateur actress; Jay then befriends Claire's taxi-driving husband, Andy (Spall). When Claire finds out, she skips her trysts and Jay becomes resentful, leading to more emotional upheavals. Based on two stories by Hanif Kureishi.

Distribution

TVA International

Available on DVD
Running time 119 minutes.
Originally from British, French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sex & Sexuality, Marriage, Bar & Grill, London

Screenplay

Patrice Chereau, Anne-Louise Trividic

Cast

Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall, Alastair Galbraith, Marianne Faithfull, Susannah Harker, Philippe Calvario, Rebecca Palmer, Fraser Ayres

Cinematography

Eric Gautier

Director

Patrice Chereau

Music

Eric Neveux

Other

Guillaume Sciama, Jean-Pierre Laforce, Francois Gedigier, Caroline De Vivaise, Hayden Griffin

Producer

Jacques Hinstin, Patrick Cassavetti, Le Studio Canal, Arte France Cinema, France 2 Cinema, Empire Pictures