
"Tell me how you loved me, so I understand how to love." Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathetic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally... (Full plot summary below)
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"Tell me how you loved me, so I understand how to love." Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathetic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free. Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves.
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| Sight and SoundPaul O'CallaghanTouch Me Not should strike a chord most readily with those who've struggled to understand or express their own identity, but adventurous viewers of all persuasions should approach this celebration of female and minority sexuality with an open mind. |
| Film InquiryGus EdgarAdina Pintilie's Touch Me Not is a fiction-non-fiction mishmash study on human intimacy that manages to feel remarkably distant. |
| NOW TorontoKevin RitchieAside from having so-called "non-traditional" bodies, both Hofmann and Bayerlein exude warmth and openness and are extremely articulate communicators. |
| Cinema ScopeChelsea Phillips-CarrThe objectifying gaze Pintilie demonstrates for marginalized bodies feels completely intentional rather than excusable, well-meaning ignorance in a quest for inclusivity. |
| Film ExperienceChris FeilPintilie molds Touch Me Not with a painful intimacy that dares you to look away from its frankness... |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineRather too full-on for mainstream audiences, more adventurous viewers will find themselves prodded into examining their own physicality more honestly. |
| Another GazeEmily WatlingtonTouch Me Not counters dominant ableist cinematic tropes that cast disabled people as asexual or undesirable... |
| Slant MagazinePat BrownTouch Me Not's commingling of narrator and narrative, character and actor, fiction and documentary suggests that cinema itself is capable of being a manner of touch, the site of a nebulous and freeing encounter between people. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottA curiously intense, weirdly tranquil experience, at times hard to watch and then hard to shake. |
| Hammer to NailChristopher Llewellyn ReedI've never seen anything quite like it, and though it doesn't all work for me, its central message of liberty and agency is as inspiring as it gets. |