Every Wednesday afternoon, a man and a woman who know almost nothing about each other emerge from London’s gray torrent of people to meet in the man’s dingy flat for fierce, quick sex. They tear into ...

Veteran French actor-director Patrice Chereau makes a stunning English-language directorial debut with the high-intensity “Intimacy,” this year’s winner of the Berlin Film Festival’s top award, the ...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Patrick McGavin reviewed “Intimacy,” which will screen tonight at the New York Film Festival, during its 2001 Sundance Film Festival world premiere.] The emotional fervor of Patrice ...

Intertwined on the carpeted floor of a grubby London flat, a couple embrace in silence. For a moment they kiss and fondle each other as the camera slowly follows their movements, unflinching. And then ...

Sometimes the camera goes everywhere you don't want it to go, such as, ugh, behind the bedroom door. There, what it discovers isn't pretty: Bodies, unless toned, buffed, sunned and well lit, are ...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Patrick McGavin reviewed “Intimacy,” which won the Golden Bear at Berlin, during this year’s Sundance Film Festival.] The emotional fervor of Patrice Chereau‘s films requires levels of ...