This movie got a well deserved golden bear at the Berlin film festival. It was shot in London, based on a British book and novel (from Hanif Kureishi) by a french - also theater - director with a.o. a Shakespearian actor, Mark Rylance, an actress from New Zealand - Kerry Fox - and Marianne Faithfull.
This movie is much spoken of because of its sex scenes : there are indeed magnificient in their simplicity. This is about a man and a woman who go through a crisis and find themselves back through a liaison first lived in silence.This is about the relationship between body and soul : the body leads to the soul but is also an obstacle to spirituality at the same time. Where is the frontier laid down between sex and falling in love truly ? All those to be for ever unanswered questions are here illustrated through moments of pure emotions, among the most beautiful I ever lived in a movie theater. The performance of Mark Rylance, who let himself go in the hands of a director he did not even know before shooting is in itself enough of a reason to go see this movie. Awesome...
This movie is much spoken of because of its sex scenes : there are indeed magnificient in their simplicity. This is about a man and a woman who go through a crisis and find themselves back through a liaison first lived in silence.This is about the relationship between body and soul : the body leads to the soul but is also an obstacle to spirituality at the same time. Where is the frontier laid down between sex and falling in love truly ? All those to be for ever unanswered questions are here illustrated through moments of pure emotions, among the most beautiful I ever lived in a movie theater. The performance of Mark Rylance, who let himself go in the hands of a director he did not even know before shooting is in itself enough of a reason to go see this movie. Awesome...