Film
Touch Me Not + Director Q&A
- Director
- Adina Pintilie
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 125 mins
Romanian first-time director Adina Pintilie‘s drama follows Laura (Laura Benson), an Englishwoman in her early 50s living in an anonymous German city, who decides to explore her aversion to physical contact and sex by staging a series of encounters. Among the people sharing stories and acts of intimacy are a male hustler, a trans sex worker and a young man with a severe physical disability.
Touch Me Not bagged the Best First Feature and Golden Bear awards at the Berlin Film Festival, but it’s fair to say that critics were sharply devided over its merits. The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw was among the nay-sayers, remarking thast it “. . . deluged me in a tidal wave of depression at how embarrassingly awful it was, at its mediocrity, its humourless self-regard, its fatuous and shallow approach to its ostensible theme of intimacy, and the clumsy way all this was sneakily elided with Euro-hardcore cliches about BDSM, alternative sexualities, fetishism and exhibitionism.”
So here’s a chance to judge for yourself. The Watershed’s screening will be followed by a director Q&A.
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