Intimacy 2001 N/R, 119 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Patrice Chereau Cast: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall, Alastair Galbraith, Susannah Harker, Philippe Calvario, Marianne Faithfull, Fraser Ayres, Michael Fitzgerald, Robert Addie
Once a week, Claire (Kerry Fox) arrives at Jay's (Mark Rylance) London flat where they have sex. Few words are spoken, and then they part. Jay has walked out on his wife and children, while Claire turns out to be a married woman. Despite their physical intimacy, happiness eludes them. Are you surprised?
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Regeneration 1997 R, 105 min. Genre: Drama aka: Behind the Lines
Director: Gillies MacKinnon Cast: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, David Hayman, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen, Dougray Scott, John Neville, Paul Young, Alastair Galbraith, Julian Fellowes, David Robb
Two poets, Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby) and Wilfred Owen (Stuart Bunce), meet in an asylum during World War I. Owen is there because he could not cope with battlefield horrors, but Sassoon has been committed because he made a public statement condemning the war. Dr. William Rivers (Jonathan Pryce) is the psychiatrist whose job it is to "cure" the men quickly so they can be sent back into battle. Based on a novel by Pat Barker, which is based on the real-life story of Siegfried Sassoon.
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| 1. Intimacy (2001)
2. Regeneration (1997) aka: Behind the Lines
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