TOUCH ME NOT
synopsis
‘Tell me how you loved me, so I understand how to love.’
Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free.
Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves.
international title: | Touch Me Not |
original title: | Touch Me Not |
working title: | Nu ma atinge-ma |
country: | Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France |
sales agent: | The Party Film Sales |
year: | 2018 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Adina Pintilie |
film run: | 100' |
release date: | UK 19/10/2018, FR 31/10/2018, DE 1/11/2018, GR 8/11/2018, DK 8/11/2018, PL 16/11/2018, HU 22/11/2018, IT 14/02/2019, RO 15/03/2019, ES 7/06/2019 |
screenplay: | Adina Pintilie |
cast: | Laura Benson, Tómas Lemarquis, Dirk Lange, Hermann Mueller, Christian Bayerlein, Irmena Chichikova, Fdaeji, Rainer Steffen, Seani Love, Georgi Naldzhiev, Grit Uhlemann |
cinematography by: | George Chiper-Lillemark |
film editing: | Adina Pintilie |
art director: | Adrian Cristea |
costumes designer: | Maria Pitea |
music: | Ivo Paunov, Blixa Bargeld |
producer: | Philippe Avril, Bianca Oana, Adina Pintilie |
co-producer: | Martichka Bozhilova, Benny Drechsel, Alzbeta Karaskova, Jakub Pinkava, Radovan Síbrt |
associate producer: | Karsten Frank, Anne Grange |
production: | Manekino Film, Agitprop, Les Films de l'Étranger, Pink Productions, Rohfilm GmbH |
backing: | Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Romanian Film Fund, Torino Film Lab, Cinefoundation, Media Development, Binger Film Lab, Nipkow Program, Eurimages |
distributor: | I Wonder Pictures, Nour Films, Alamode Film, Øst for Paradis, Pilot Film, Manekino Film, Good Films |