Intimate Strangers
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Patrice Leconte
Fabrice Luchini
Sandrine Bonnaire
Michel Duchaussoy
Anne Brochet
Gilbert Melki
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A disturbed-looking woman named Anna enters a Paris apartment building where white-collar professionals conduct business from their homes. The concierge--whose chronic involvement in a dopey soap opera is a wink to the melodrama at work in ordinary lives--tells her that Dr. Monnier's practice is on the fifth floor. Anna takes the elevator, chooses a door and is admitted by William, whose secretary has left for the day. Obviously upset, Anna explains it's an emergency. With minimum prompting from William, she quickly reveals she's been married for four years and works in an upscale luggage boutique. Her husband is unemployed, and, although their love life was formerly quite satisfying, they haven't had sex for six months. She thinks she's going crazy. Talking seems to make Anna feel better and she spontaneously proposes a date and time for their next appointment. She then leaves without having given her name or phone number and although he does have a couch in his office and there was a book about psychoanalysis on his desk, William is actually a financial planner specializing in tax problems. Psychiatrist Dr. Monnier, whom Anna meant to see, has an office a few doors down on the same floor. Jeanne, who's traded in the unassuming and fastidious William for outgoing hulk Luc, tells her former love that he must come clean. But although William does his level best to remedy the misunderstanding, Anna doesn't let him get a word in edgewise on her subsequent visit as she spills ever more intimate details about her private life.
Director
Patrice Leconte
Cast
Fabrice Luchini
Sandrine Bonnaire
Michel Duchaussoy
Anne Brochet
Gilbert Melki
Laurent Gamelon
Urbain Chartier
Helene Surgere
Crew
Hubert Engammare
Pascal Esteve
Christine Gozlan
Joelle Hache
Sandrine Kerner
Paul Laine
Patrice Leconte
Ivan Maussion
Alain Sarde
Eduardo Serra
Jérôme Tonnerre
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Limited Release in United States July 30, 2004
Released in United States Summer July 30, 2004
Released in United States on Video December 28, 2004
Released in United States 2004
Released in United States February 2004
Released in United States June 2004
Shown at Seattle International Film Festival May 20- June 13, 2004.
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival February 5-15, 2004.
Shown at IFP/Los Angeles Film Festival (Special Screenings) June 17-26, 2004.
Limited Release in United States July 30, 2004
Released in United States Summer July 30, 2004
Released in United States on Video December 28, 2004
Released in United States 2004 (Shown at Seattle International Film Festival May 20- June 13, 2004.)
Released in United States February 2004 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival February 5-15, 2004.)
Released in United States June 2004 (Shown at IFP/Los Angeles Film Festival (Special Screenings) June 17-26, 2004.)
