Touch Me Not

Released Jan 11, 2019

2h 5m

Drama

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A filmmaker and her characters begin a personal research project about intimacy.

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Touch Me Not deserves admiration for its efforts to debunk stereotypes and further a necessary dialogue, even if the execution never lives up to those lofty ambitions.

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I think Adina and whole team did a magnificent job. Raising questions that are inside us but we are either to ignorant to know or to scared to let even ourselves to know about them.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/12/24

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The greatest 02 hour: and 05 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Isabelle Huppert once said that cinema was pointless without trasgression. That statemnt from one of the most talented, important and trasgressive actresses in indutry makes it very importan but, above all, is true. The industry needs to quit formulas -or at least to use them in the right way- and open the gates to new talents,new stories that really cause an impact. We need to take away taboos and stereotypes and perjudices and everything that could make impossible this beautiful art to bloom. That is exactly what the film ¨Touch me not¨ tries to do and achieves, it breaks every fromula and stereotypes and writer-director Adina Pintille brings to life something completely new. A film about intimacy and sexual awakeness from people who could not be consideresd beautiful in the popular -and therefore fake- meaning of the word. But, sadly all the potential to create a powerful masterpiece is not used and instead we recieve a sometimes fascinating, somtimes schoking, sometimes moving, sometimes boring, dull and sometimes detestable halfway masterpiece. The film recognition for its intentions and ideals, but not for its mediocre execution.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Adina Pintilie

Director

Laura Benson

Laura

Tómas Lemarquis

Tudor

Irmena Chichikova

Mona

Seani Love

Seani Love

Christian Bayerlein

Christian

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

"Touch Me Not," is fairly mesmerizing as a mindful curio that blends performance and honesty, artifice and openness, to achieve a kind of inviting clarity about the healing power of bodily contact.

Feb 28, 2019

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

Touch Me Not is definitely abstract and intellectualized ... but so much of the film left me cold, even bored.

Rated: 2/4

Jan 11, 2019

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A.O. Scott

New York Times

A curiously intense, weirdly tranquil experience, at times hard to watch and then hard to shake.

Jan 10, 2019

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Guillem Martinez Oya

Cinematismo

'Touch me not' is an audiovisual essay about the limits. The mental, corporeal and social limits. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3.75/5

Jun 23, 2020

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Wade Major

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

It tries to be provocative, but it ultimately is just meaningless and rather meandering.

Sep 20, 2019

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Liam Lacey

Original Cin

Though it probably takes on more issues than it can handle, Touch Me Not is an intriguing oddity in a world saturated with sexual imagery, but where the subtleties of intimacy remain largely mysterious.

Rated: B-plus

Aug 23, 2019

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Synopsis

A filmmaker and her characters begin a personal research project about intimacy.

Director: Adina Pintilie
Screenwriter: Adina Pintilie
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Manekino Film, Rohfilm, Les Films de L'Etranger, Agitprop
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 11, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 9, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $13.6K
Runtime: 2h 5m