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Intensive Therapy

by Yon motskin

Screenplay and dialogue by Jerome Tonnerre
Adaptation by Jerome Tonnerre and Patrice Leconte

A spare and slow-cooked script, reminiscent of a French Lost in Translation, allows two excellent actors and a master director to create a palate of sensuality and longing without much touch. A married woman (Sandrine Bonnaire) mistakes a reserved tax accountant (Fabrice Luchini) for a therapist and proceeds to reveal her deepest secrets to him. Like the film itself, the DVD includes no extra bells and whistles.

Intimate Strangers
Paramount Home Video
Rated R; 104 min.
$29.99

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Writer-director Yon Motskin is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Film Program. He is currently preparing to shoot his first feature film, "Cutman," based on his award-winning short that premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and screened worldwide.

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