“When I was 20, I thought I knew how things worked: desire, intimacy, beauty,” director Adina Pintilie, 38, tells The Post. But “reality is much more complex.” Her film “Touch Me Not,” screening at ...

The camera, tweezer-close, skims the surface of an unidentified body, the skin and hairs like a pale wasteland, a curled appendage lies in rest like a sleeping giant, and there’s the atmospheric sound ...

More than a few people were surprised when “Touch Me Not” took home the Golden Bear, the top prize at 2018’s Berlinale. The sexually explicit film from Adina Pintilie was in the festival’s competition ...

This nonlinear exploration of intimacy seeks to challenge notions of beauty while opening viewers up to a range of sexual pleasures. If anyone is shocked by “Touch Me Not,” they’re not getting the ...

Lukas Dhont's transgender drama 'Girl,' Gustav Moller's sparse Danish thriller 'The Guilty' and Adina Pintilie's Berlin festival winner 'Touch Me Not' are contenders for the best first-film honor at ...

It’s ironic that Adina Pintilie’s “Touch Me Not” was received as something of a provocation when it premiered at (and won) the 2018 Berlinale, because for all of its nudity and kink — its unashamed ...

Wes Anderson wins best director honors for 'Isle of Dogs.' By Scott Roxborough Touch Me Not, a provocative film about sexuality and intimacy that features long stretches of graphic nudity, on Saturday ...

A blend of documentary, fiction, staged therapy, and biography–with considerable full-frontal nudity and sex–the surprise winner of the Berlinale’s Golden Bear is a film not easily summed up in an ...

When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By A.O. Scott “I’ve never told you what this is about,” Adina Pintilie says at the ...