Winner of the top prize, the Golden Bear, at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival, “Intimacy” is a devastating piece of work, with Rylance and Fox, not to mention supporting actor Timothy Spall, turning in ...

[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 ...

French director Patrice Chereau makes films that burst with melodrama. Even when he concocts a historical drama, like the 1994 film "Queen Margot," the soap operatics are thickly spread on top of the ...

Watching Intimacy, Patrice Chéreau’s latest film, is something akin to tracking a land-bound hurricane on the Weather Channel. You know the story will end in destruction, but you can’t help wondering ...

"INTIMACY" is graphic in its depictions of sex. It goes further than you're used to seeing in a theatrical movie. But the English film, directed by French Patrice Chereau, isn't about the physical ...