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Touch Me Not

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5.2/10 • 55

2018-10-052h 5m

Drama

Tell me how you loved me, so I know how to love

Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free. Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves.

Directors
Adina Pintilie
Writters
Adina Pintilie
Editors
Adina Pintilie, Adina Pintilie

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  1. Laura Benson

    Laura Benson

    Laura

  2. Adina Pintilie

    Adina Pintilie

    Adina

  3. Tómas Lemarquis

    Tómas Lemarquis

    Tudor

  4. Christian Bayerlein

    Christian Bayerlein

    Christian

  5. Irmena Chichikova

    Irmena Chichikova

    Mona

  6. Grit Uhlemann

    Grit Uhlemann

    Grit

  7. Hanna Hofmann

    Hanna Hofmann

    Hanna

  8. Seani Love

    Seani Love

    Seani

  9. Rainer Steffen

    Rainer Steffen

    Stefan

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CinemaSerf

Sep 1, 2024

5/10

...or perhaps just "Watch Me Not"? In theory this could have made for quite an interesting look at just how different people deal with intimacy - emotional and the more tactile variety. To that end we spend an over-long two hours in the company of "Laura" (Laura Benson) whose proclivities, attitudes and remarkable recoil and roaring abilities are demonstrated, as are those of her subjects."Tómas" (Tómas Lemarquis) and "Christian" (Christian Bayerlein). Much of this is relayed through a series of scenes with a very much more participative analyst than many in "Hanna" (Hanna Hofmann) who is a transexual but that's neither here nor there to this meandering exercise in soft-porn introspection disguised as "insight". What simply doesn't work is the sheer amount of pointless verbosity, from start to finish, that ensures that this takes on more of a lecture (or documentary) for the curiously prurient than an engaging drama. Auteur Adina Pintilie (who also features here) obviously has a message she wished to convey, but she didn't establish enough distance between the reality and the fiction of this production to enable me know just what she's getting at. Everyone has boundaries, and these are not consistent - either personally, emotionally or physically - so what's the point of taking this rather monotonically simplistic approach to human nature and suggesting it's going to induce empathy. Baring the soul isn't always an easy thing to watch, but when you are this detached from the subject matter is just becomes too observational. I felt like I was sitting in on conversations that were none of my business between people about whom I couldn't really care less. By half way through I was looking at the cinema ceiling wondering if I could ever find myself - or my peccadilloes - interesting enough to put on display in such a contrived and unnatural fashion. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood, but this falls uncomfortably between half an dozen stools and was wasted on me, sorry.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Romanian
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
woman director