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A short promotional film for the stage play 'Intimacy' adapted from the short story by Jean-Paul Sartre... REVIEWS:- Camden New Journal:- We are in a Paris cafe on the eve of the Second World War. We meet Lulu and Rirette, wo friends bound by their intimacies and a line in rather fabulous lacy lingerie. Intimacy is based on the short story by Jean-Paul Sartre, adapted by Michael Almaz. Lulu has a comfortable but boring marriage to Henri, enlivened by many passionate rendezvous with Pierre. He has asked her to leave her husband and run away with him to Nice. Rirette counsels her best friend from the sidelines, but she is more emotionally involved in the outcome than she would care to admit. Lulu is both deliciously saucy and impossibly innocent, yet manages to suggest an intelligence that prevents her from appearing just a tease. Rirette is a good contrast. Equally passionate by nature yet more thoughtful and a little insecure, with a yearning frailty beneath her confident appearance. Eroticism saturates the play." TNT Magazine "Intimacy is an engaging, witty and carefully observed peep-through-the-keyhole look at two young women in pre-World War II Paris. Sartre was by no means complimentary about Parisian attitudes at the time and the monologues of Lulu and Rirette about their lives and loves reflect the frivolity and emotional emptiness he frowned upon." The Times Literary Supplement:- "Sartre's short story "Intimacy", brilliantly theatricalized by Michael Almaz"... "Sartre has a wonderful eye for sleaziness... [Almaz] clears Sartre's grubby male characters into the wings: the play is a sequence of monologues and conversations for Lulu and her friend Rirette, and the males - the priapic mother-ridden lover and the flacid, pimply, tearful husband - are here merely as the creatures of female speech... an exhilerating hour of theatre." The Independent: "excellent two-hander theatre with the psychological and the erotic at the top of the menu...Sartre's comic play 'Intimacy' is set in Paris with the irrepressible but unhappy Lulu shuffling between the beds of Henri and Pierrre, assisted in her endeavours by her friend Rirette, who pauses to think of a word for Lulu's physique and settles on "obscene". The Camden New Journal "Scantily clad women, promiscuity, friendship, superficiality and romance. This two woman play set in the 1930s is based on Jean-Paul Sartre's short story, which addresses the difficulties and problems encountered trying to follow a course of action. Lulu and Rirette are close friends. In a backdrop of sleaze and frivolity rife in Paris, Rirette is concerned that Lulu, searching for happiness, should leave her impotent husband for her lover. The cafe scene is enthralling as the protagonists bicker only to realise that their tender friendship, whilst seemingly strong is liable to frailty, rivalry and betrayal. The outcome is one with a twist. The writing is witty with a feast of retorts that enamour the audience to Lulu's giddiness and Rirette's insecurities.