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Intimacy (2001)
Frenchman Patrice Chéreau helmed this adaptation of the London-set Hanif Kureishi novel, which won the top-prize Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Before playing the tight-lipped, long-faced Soviet spy at the center of Steven Spielberg’s upstanding Bridge of Spies, actor Mark Rylance was engaged here in a totally different kind of dirty business, receiving actual fellatio from co-star Kerry Fox.
