Touch Me Not
Year: 2018
Country:
ROMANIA, GERMANY, CZECHIA, BULGARIA, FRANCE
Language:
German, English
Run Time:
125 minutes
“Freedom is a hell of a quest,” says Laura to the omnipresent director who hovers throughout this film about a film. Dancing between fiction and documentary, TOUCH ME NOT is an intentionally provocative exploration of three people looking to shatter their personal barriers to intimacy and love. Laura is repulsed by touch and uses various ways to battle this, including a hermaphroditic prostitute, a call boy, and a primal scream therapist. Tomas works with Christian, a man with severe physical challenges who fearlessly seeks to celebrate his unique body while Tomas seems trapped within his more conventional one. Each of them is filmed with an extraordinary intimacy and detail that may discomfort some viewers. They speak openly to us of their journey, allowing us to share at very close proximity both their emotional and physical nakedness. TOUCH ME NOT eschews conventional taboos, inviting us into a controversial, powerful, and ultimately liberating look at the search for self-acceptance and love. Explicit and startling, this is a truly unique cinematic experiment. (In English and German with subtitles) —C.R.
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Director
Adina Pintilie
Director and writer Adina Pintilie was born in Bucharest, Romania. She studied at the Ion Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film. TOUCH ME NOT was awarded the Golden Bear at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.
Filmography
Don't Get Me Wrong (2007), TOUCH ME NOT (2018)
Producers
Bianca Oana, Philippe Avril, Adina Pintilie
Screenwriting
Bianca Oana, Philippe Avril, Adina Pintilie
Cinematography
George Chiper-Lillemark
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Adina Pintilie
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