Movie-Intimate Strangers

Intimate Strangers starts with an intriguing premise. A woman walks into an office she thinks is a psychiatrist and starts telling him about her terrible marriage. But the man she tells her intimate secrets to is actually a tax lawyer, she has made a mistake in which office she entered. And the way the film opens that premise is quite believable.

As you get deeper into this 2004 French movie, you begin to wonder about even that original premise. Did she walk into that office by accident, or did she know he was not a shrink?

A movie about the psyches of the two main characters, the movie centers mostly on this office and the encounters the two have within its walls. What is the truth, why does she keep coming here, even after she knows he is not a shrink? Why does he let her?

And the build up to all these questions is intriguing, but the payoff does not come. The film wanders far from psychological thriller and meanders into psychologically interesting, well, kinda interesting.

The movie opts for ease and quiet, but in doing so loses any steam it has built. It should have had more twists and curves...but gives for a straight line, and so was ultimately disappointing, despite the allure of the two main characters.