Intimate strangers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Intimate strangers |
| Original title | Confidences trop intimes |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Patrice Leconte |
| script |
Jérôme Tonnerre Patrice Leconte |
| production | Alain Sarde |
| music | Pascal Estève |
| camera | Eduardo Serra |
| cut | Joëlle Hache |
| occupation | |
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Intimate Strangers (Original title: Confidences trop intimes ) is a French drama from 2004 . Directed by Patrice Leconte , who also wrote the script together with Jérôme Tonnerre .
action
Anna is dissatisfied with her marriage and wants the psychotherapist Dr. Consult Monnier. She mistakenly ends up in the office of tax advisor William, which is on the same floor. William is fascinated by Anna and does not clear up the mix-up at first. At the end of the conversation, Anna arranged more meetings. William tries several times to clear up the misunderstanding; but he does not succeed. William gets advice from his former girlfriend Jeanne and the psychotherapist.
Anna only realizes her mistake after several meetings and after a deeper conversational relationship has developed between Anna and William. Even so, Anna continues to visit William. Finally she informs him that she is leaving her husband and will move away. Based on their conversations, William suspects that she is moving to the south of France and follows her there. Anna has now opened a ballet school. In the end, William and Anna continue their conversations.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the director told “the story with satirical swipes at the methods of psychoanalysis and its reception in film” and that “he is stylishly moving in the terrain of bourgeois neuroses, which the outstanding actors perform in a subtle and self-deprecating way” . The film offers a “game with secrets and confusion, accentuated by a romantic undertone” .
The magazine TV Spielfilm 5/2008 wrote that the director was developing “ a complex confusion” “from the funny starting point ” , which only seemed “overstretched in the end” . The “extremely French” “sensual psychodrama about the art of listening and the eroticism in thought” is a “chamber play with mind and wonderful images” .
Awards
Patrice Leconte was nominated for the Golden Bear and for the European Film Award in 2004.
backgrounds
The film was shot in Paris . Its world premiere took place on February 6, 2004 at the Berlin International Film Festival , which was followed by several other film festivals. The film grossed approximately $ 2.1 million in US cinemas . In France there were around 656 thousand cinema viewers, in Germany around 130 thousand.
Web links
- Intimate Strangers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Intimate strangers at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Intimate strangers at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Intimate Strangers in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on March 2, 2008
- ↑ TV Spielfilm 5/2008, page 82
- ↑ Filming locations for Confidences trop intimes, accessed March 2, 2008
- ^ Opening dates for Confidences trop intimes, accessed March 2, 2008
- ↑ Box office results for Confidences trop intimes, accessed on March 2, 2008