The camera, tweezer-close, skims the surface of an unidentified body, the skin and hairs like a pale wasteland, a curled appendage lies in rest like a sleeping giant, and there’s the atmospheric sound ...
“When I was 20, I thought I knew how things worked: desire, intimacy, beauty,” director Adina Pintilie, 38, tells The Post. But “reality is much more complex.” Her film “Touch Me Not,” screening at ...
This nonlinear exploration of intimacy seeks to challenge notions of beauty while opening viewers up to a range of sexual pleasures. If anyone is shocked by “Touch Me Not,” they’re not getting the ...
Lukas Dhont's transgender drama 'Girl,' Gustav Moller's sparse Danish thriller 'The Guilty' and Adina Pintilie's Berlin festival winner 'Touch Me Not' are contenders for the best first-film honor at ...
More than a few people were surprised when “Touch Me Not” took home the Golden Bear, the top prize at 2018’s Berlinale. The sexually explicit film from Adina Pintilie was in the festival’s competition ...
A blend of documentary, fiction, staged therapy, and biography–with considerable full-frontal nudity and sex–the surprise winner of the Berlinale’s Golden Bear is a film not easily summed up in an ...
Director Adina Pintilie’s “Touch Me Not,” a daring and highly personal exploration of intimacy, has won the Golden Bear award as the best film at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. Silver Bear acting ...
Copy and paste the code in your html to embed this video, making sure to credit Cineuropa: ‘Tell me how you loved me, so I understand how to love.’ Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture ...
Adina Pintilie’s first feature, 'Touch Me Not,' is an eye-opening look at human sexuality on the uncertain edge of fiction and non-fiction. By Deborah Young There’s no room for prudes in the ...