Intimate Strangers

"Intimate Strangers" (Confidences trop intimes, 2004), directed by Patrice Leconte, is a French drama you can watch online on iFILM. Anna walks through the wrong door and ends up confessing her failing marriage to William Faber — a tax consultant who never once corrects her mistake about what he does for a living.

She keeps coming back. Sandrine Bonnaire and Fabrice Luchini play out a slow, quietly comic situation that gradually becomes difficult to classify — not quite therapy, not quite courtship, not quite the ordinary appointment it pretends to be. The film is less about attraction than about the strange intimacy of being truly heard by someone with no prior claim on your story. Stream "Intimate Strangers" online on iFILM.