Intimacy is a 2001 erotic drama film directed by Patrice Chéreau from a screenplay he co-wrote with Anne-Louise Trividic, based on stories by Hanif Kureishi (who also wrote a novel of the same title).

The film is an international co-production between France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy,[2] featuring a soundtrack of pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s.

Now living alone in a decrepit house in London, he has intense weekly sex every Wednesday with a woman whose name he does not know.

Jay learns that her name is Claire, and she has a husband, Andy, a black cab driver, and a son, Leo.

Some time later, Jay and Ian go to a squat to rescue Victor, as he has apparently fallen into drug abuse.

Jay confides in Andy about his failed marriage and that he is having an affair with a mystery woman who he sees every Wednesday.

[6] In a 2001 lengthy column for The Guardian, Alexander Linklater described the jealousy he experienced when his partner Kerry Fox took the real-sex role in this movie.

Linklater concludes that he accepted the unsimulated oral scene, but he insists that the sexual intercourse is an illusion.