A curious art house film has infiltrated the specialty box office directed, written and edited by Romanian filmmaker Pintilie called Touch Me Not. It’s a fascinating if uneven movie about people venturing into a research project to get beyond their own fears and issues around intimacy. The personalities and experiences of the actors involved have been morphed together with their characters. Through improvisation and their own explorations of their own fears and limitations, or their place in helping others go beyond them, Pintilie built a collection of people as part real and part imagined. If that sounds bizarre, it is. It is an intentional blurring of the lines of reality, fiction, and fantasy, and an at times confrontational sort of experiential storytelling that will move some viewers, while offending or boring others.
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