Touch Me Not

Touch Me Not

Tell me how you loved me, so I know how to love

Directed by Adina Pintilie

Produced by Manekino Film, Rohfilm

2018125 min5.0 / 10

A deeply introspective, formally experimental documentary-drama that uses intimate portraiture to explore how people navigate fear, desire, and the possibility of genuine human connection.

Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free. Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves.

Questions people ask

  • Is Touch Me Not violent? No. Less violent than 92% of films.

  • Is Touch Me Not sad? Yes. More sad than 82% of films.

  • Is Touch Me Not scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Is Touch Me Not easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 60% of films.

  • Does Touch Me Not end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

20/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity92

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise3

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love5

How much audiences actually like it

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Touch Me Not, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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