![]() He discovers her real life, as a housewife, mother and actress, who is playing Laura in a London fringe theater production of ''The Glass Menagerie'' (a door in a pub is helpfully labeled ''Toilets and Theater''). She is so singleminded that she courageously avoids the line we know every woman on earth would have eventually said: ''I could help you fix up this place.'' Their arrangement of raw sex begins to go wrong when he follows her one day. They tear off each other's clothes and have passionate sex on the floor of a messy room. At first she's simply a woman who turns up at his door every Wednesday afternoon to relieve an urgent physical need. The rage wells up because Jay fit that description himself until he left behind music six years ago and masochistically buried himself behind the bar. In an early scene, he is angry about an assistant hired to work with him behind the bar, because the new man is not a professional bartender but is an actor between jobs. ![]() The film, which is brave but not perceptive, stars Mark Rylance as Jay, a former musician, a divorced husband and father, who now works as a barman and lives in a barely furnished hovel. Any woman would know that this movie was directed by a man.'' A man might know that, too. She walks in, they rip off each other's clothes, and a few seconds later they're in a frenzy. A woman would be turned off by a man who doesn't spend time being tender and sweet, and showing that he cares for her. ''The sex in the movie all involves the bottom of the ninth inning. ''Of course, no woman would be attracted to sex like that,'' she said. They want to keep it to that: no names, no small talk.Īfter the screening at Sundance 2001, I ran into Kristina Nordstrom, who runs the Women Filmmakers' Symposium in Los Angeles. "Intimacy" is a movie in which a man and a woman meet for short, brutal, anonymous sex every Wednesday afternoon.
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