Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

docmorbius This was a story devoid of interest or excitement, a never-ending soap opera made into a movie. Was there ever any ending? The movie just stops and I was so glad it was over that I don't care whether they stay together or not. This encapsulates the whole thing: A pointless story; a pointless love affair (who would have thought that a love affair could be made so unexciting); vapid and uninspired sex scenes (Do they ever entertain the idea of oral sex or grooming their bushy private parts?); and actors who appear miserable to appear in and wander through such a sordid tale of ennui.

Maciste_Brother One of the most unpleasant films I've ever seen.The dialogue is howlingly bad. All the characters are reprehensible. The script doesn't make any sense whatsoever.The only thing everyone talks about this film are the sex scenes because the rest is not worth mentioning. The story made so little sense. The relationships between the characters were unbelievable (the gay bartender, the drunk roommate, the main character befriending the overweight husband, etc). Everyone, and I mean everyone, was dour and angry.The bits of dialogue made me laugh out loud. Nothing rang true. Notice the hilarious dialogue during the scene between the two women in the park. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Here's an example:"When I died, there was no one there. I had to go through the whole thing on my own.""What was it, the day you died?"Who talks like that?To make things even worse, the acting is strictly amateurish.The film has a very French feel to it because the director is French but the whole thing didn't jibe at all. It was like watching British characters behave in a French manner, with everything set not in France but set in England.It's almost like the director wanted to make all English folks look bad. Really bad.Avoid at all cost.

aeg-11 My husband is currently watching this film which we rented, which he seems to be enjoying. Maybe it's just my mood tonight, but I found this film unwatchable. Literally. I had to leave the room -- something I NEVER do when my husband and I are watching a film together. I found it irritating. The characters were so unsympathetic, dysfunctional and frankly boring, I couldn't work up enough interest to care about them, even in a literary sense. As I was watching the sex scenes I thought "I SHOULD be finding this erotic" but I wasn't -- probably because I didn't these like or care about them. (I guess that's the difference between "women's porn" and "men's porn.") I thought the entire mood of the movie was dark, depressing and that the characters had sex just to reassure themselves they were alive. To me, that's sad and pathetic and depressing, not erotic. Hey, call me a romantic.To each his/her own, I guess.Watch it for the sex scenes if you like, but for me, there wasn't much else in terms of interesting plot lines or character. I think it's boring and frequently painful to watch.PS The movie is over. I asked my husband if HE liked it, since he watched it to the end. His answer was NO. He read this review, and he agrees. A waste of time.

noralee "Intimacy" is a very contemporary take on the Brit classic "Brief Encounter," told mostly forward chronologically but backwards (with some confusion as to what's a flashback) in how the characters are revealed and relate to each other from grunting physical sex, like Erica Jong's "zipless f*cks," to surprising feelings.By a French director with the naturalistic improv feel of a Mike Leigh film (including a regular actor from that repertory, Timothy Spall), inspired by a notorious semi-autobiographical short story by the author of "My Beautiful Laundrette," it certainly feels more French than British --and I wouldn't have minded some sub-titles for when the working class mates get together.This movie is very full frontal frank, to the point that it caused quite a brouhaha in the British press over a scene where the lead actress (Kerry Fox) performs a blow job on the lead actor (Mark Rylance). As it happens, her significant other, and father of her baby, is a writer with "The Prospect" who wrote up his reactions, prompting a film critic's response on reel vs. real love-making. I was surprised in advance that the American reviewers barely noticed the scene -- until I realized that the U.S. version, even unrated, is one minute shorter than the European version -- and I saw that it's absolutely obvious what minute is missing.Here, unlike the usual frisky sexual encounter movies about twenty-somethings, what makes this movie so powerful rather than voyeuristic is the mature theater actors playing experienced grown-ups with individual histories. The actress makes a point to go to interviews about the film accompanied by her nursing infant and babysitting mother and the images in the movie of trusting children are effective counterpoints to their parents' actions. Significantly, the emotional climax for the characters comes when they are both bundled up in coats. The point of the friends' roles are a bit unclear, especially the young, handsome gay confidante who mostly seems to be pitying breeders, but it's nice to see Marianne Faithful as rooted in reality. The soundtrack pounds out the electronica regrets of the central male character's former life as a musician, but his existential actions and self-realization are straight out of Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart."(originally written 11/22/2001)