Intimacy (2001 film)

Intimacy
French theatrical release poster
Directed byPatrice Chéreau
Screenplay by
  • Anne-Louise Trividic
  • Patrice Chéreau
Based onIntimacy
by Hanif Kureishi
Produced by
  • Patrick Cassavetti
  • Jacques Hinstin
Starring
CinematographyEric Gautier
Edited byFrançois Gédigier
Music byÉric Neveux [fr]
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 20 January 2001 (2001-01-20) (Sundance)
  • 28 March 2001 (2001-03-28) (France)
  • 4 May 2001 (2001-05-04) (Italy)
  • 7 June 2001 (2001-06-07) (Germany)
  • 27 July 2001 (2001-07-27) (United Kingdom)
Running time
  • 107 minutes
  • 119 minutes (France)
Countries
  • France
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Italy
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2.7 million[1]

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,[2] featuring a soundtrack of pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s. Intimacy contains an unsimulated fellatio scene by Fox on Rylance.[3][4] A French-dubbed version features voice actors Jean-Hugues Anglade and Nathalie Richard.

The film has been associated with the New French Extremity.[5]

  1. ^ "Intimacy (2001)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Intimité (2002)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 9 March 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Dangerous liaisons". TheGuardian.com. 22 June 2001.
  4. ^ "Intimacy". whatculture.com. 14 February 2016. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021.
  5. ^ Quandt, James (February 2004). "Flesh & blood: sex and violence in recent French cinema". Artforum. Archived from the original on 10 August 2004. Retrieved 10 July 2008.