Touch Me Not

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Touch Me Not
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Romanian film poster
RomanianNu mă atinge
Directed byAdina Pintilie
Written byAdina Pintilie
Produced by
  • Bianca Oana
  • Philippe Avril
  • Adina Pintilie
Starring
CinematographyGeorge Chiper-Lillemark
Edited byAdina Pintilie
Music byIvo Paunov
Production
companies
  • Manekino Film
  • 4 Proof Film
  • AGITPROP
  • Les Films de l'Étranger
  • Pink Productions
  • Rohfilm
Distributed by
  • Alamode Film (Germany)
  • Pilot Film (Czech Republic)
  • Nour Films (France)
Release dates
  • 22 February 2018 (2018-02-22) (Berlin)
  • 31 October 2018 (2018-10-31) (France)
  • 1 November 2018 (2018-11-01) (Germany)
Running time
125 minutes
Countries
  • Romania
  • Germany[1]
    Czech Republic[2]
  • France
  • Bulgaria[3]
Languages
  • English
  • German
Budget€1 million[4]
Adina Pintilie

Touch Me Not (Romanian: Nu mă atinge) is a 2018 experimental docudrama film written and directed by Adina Pintilie. Starring Laura Benson, Tómas Lemarquis, Adina Pintilie and Dirk Lange, it addresses popular prejudices related to intimacy and sexuality.[5]

The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear.[6][7][8]

Cast

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Reception

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According to a list by Screen International, the film received an average rating of 1,5 of four possible stars by film critics at the Berlinale and was thereby in the third-last place of all films in the Berlinale main competition.[9] It was seen as a controversial film, viewers left the cinema in rows.[10][11] The Golden Bear awarded by the Berlinale jury thus came as a surprise.

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Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter praised the film, describing it as "an eye-opening look at human sexuality". She stated, "Though not every moment is fascinating to watch, most moments are, and adult audiences should find its frank presentation of the diversity of intimacy thought-provoking and possibly therapeutic."[14]

In a negative review, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called the film "embarrassingly awful", criticising "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." He described the film's recognition at the Berlinale as a "calamity" for the festival.[15]

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