Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This movie is pure reality -happening every day every hour even via internet nowadays, how a relationships may develop - first love resulting in marriage with two kids developed into feeling of being strangers,complete break, having to lonely masturbate in the family toilet - soooo sad. After divorce children's' visits one day a week only, resulting in self made meals, it is such an unnatural uncomfortable meeting with one parent instead of both that could be best family time instead. In that loneliness then one parent finding love to a stranger, bilateral attraction, while one partner just enjoys fancy, the other part looks for more, but with that attitude induces the mystery slowly resolving back to reality. It is sooooo moving to watch how dream bubbles disappear slowly slowly, and a tragedy evolves. Such a precious movie, daring performance of both actors and director. The music is gorgeous. Tat movie is one of my ever favorites, OK THE favorite - wow - what a movie..prizes were raining (silver bears in Berlin),no prize good enough for Mark Rylance's outstanding performance (should have been platinum - or star dust, really)- wow

"Intimacy" in a porn film? Was this supposed to be a joke title? Is this Europe's "cinema Veriee"? Or perhaps "neo cinema Veriee"? Makes no difference what they call it, but it doesn't come off as particularly realistic. Perhaps it's "neo Euro-trash porn". They tried to put porn into mainstream movies in the early 70s and it failed. And so it will fail this time, too, in spite of such talentless - and hence highly regarded - Eurotrash directors such as von Trier who propagate such junk. I hardly think that showing a man's erection adds to the realism of a movie. What about the dialogue? On quite a few occasions the characters talk and interact in an unrealistic way; real people simply don't behave the way these characters do half of the time. Yet, there is a belief that just because Kerry Fox is actually shown putting her co-star's erection in her mouth that this will somehow add new dimensions to the realism of a movie, realism never seen before. I think not.On the other hand, I always had the wish to see the seemingly impossible: a (semi-)famous actress in a pornographic scene. I can't say I wasn't pleased when Kerry Fox in one scene grabs her co-stars penis, and then even orally pleasures it (briefly, unfortunately) in another scene. And it's rather nice that it was Kerry Fox who has had the dubious privilege of becoming one of extremely few known actresses to become a temporary porn star. Of course, I'd love to see Shirley MacLaine get it from behind, Elizabeth Taylor engage in masturbation, Susan Sarandon do it doggy-style, etc, but Fox is a pretty good choice, too. Though, I must say, Fox looks more than a little embarrassed in the porn scenes. Considering she got some award in some meaningless little European festival, this is surprising. I mean, didn't the jury who awarded her notice her obvious lack of relaxedness during the sex scenes? Lousy Eurotrash jury...The movie isn't too boring. The hand-held camera shtick is quite tiresome at times - another hint that this director belongs to the Lars von Trier trash director's club of European losers. (Losers 95.) The film would have been a shade weaker if it weren't for Fox's charisma. The male lead was ideally cast in "Institute Benjamenta", but rather badly cast this time around. Being a continental European, his accent takes too long to get used to and it's rather silly the way he tries to do a British/London/whatever-accent-he's-supposed-to-be-doing and his swearing (which is regular) comes off as totally unconvincing. There is also a character who plays a gay man - which seems to be a must in today's movies and sit-coms: every film and series has to have a homosexual, and it's almost always a happy-go-lucky smart-ass full of wise advice for the lead characters, who are of course straight. (And every courtroom scene nowadays has to have a black female judge, as if that will contribute to solving the problem of racism, but that's another story.) All in all, much better than anything von Trier has/will ever come up with, but ultimately pointless.How dumb does Kerry Fox have to be to be suckered into doing a porn film? "Don't worry, dear, it's art. People will respect you even more as an artist."

I thought that this movie was interesting because one does not see 'Real Sex' in regular Hollywood movies, real sex is only seen in X rated movies. Its nice to see a different 'Real' take on what is illuded to in most films with sex scenes in them. I would have given this good movie a higher rating but I had not much if anything to compare it to other than any NC-17 movies I have seen in the past. NC-17 movies I thought contained the most nudity next to adult rated X movies. Even though mostly teenage boys will like this film for its inherent sexual content, I watched this film with my girlfriend and she said that it was a very enjoyable and very different movie in the way sex is used to explain the story.

Picture your life this way if you can: You are a regular bloke. You work as a bartender in a pub. Your wife has left you and has custody over your two kids. Your friends are a gay and a totally whacked out stoner.The only thing you look forward to, is the afternoon of Wednesdays. That's when an annonymous female stranger knocks on your door, enters your home and the both of you have sex.Just sex. Nothing else. You don't even talk to each other. Just plain humping. And she leaves after that, leaving you basking in orgasmic pleasure.And that, covers about 1/3 of the movie. Not just one sex scene, but plenty in between. Nothing fancy, just straight to the point humping.Things start to get complicated when you try to find out more about the life of this stranger, and the viewer is presented the background, motives and rationale behind the two lead characters.That's it. With one final hump, the movie ends. I suppose it's for the arty-farty folks, but heck, i think 90% of the audience in the sold-out theatre didn't comprehend what the movie is trying to put across.