I was lucky enough to see “Touch Me Not” at its first public screening during the Berlinale, having no clue about what I was about to watch. What I lived that evening is very hard to put into words. I had undoubtedly seen a film, but the feeling I had was that much more had happened: I had lived an experience - fully, totally - alongside all the people on the screen in front of me. What was it exactly? I didn’t know, I needed to come back from this incredible trip that Adina Pintilie - as she herself is one of the characters - and all the other actors and crew-members had shared with us.
It is a film about freedom, about humanity, about perception, about prejudice, about (lack of) control, about fear, about vulnerability, about trust, about love, about empathy, about taboos and indeed about intimacy. If you simply accept their challenge and agree to “let it go”, you will open yourself up to the chance of overcoming certain (imaginary, social, political, psychological - moral) boundaries, and, as is always the case when cinema happens, of discovering many things about… yourself. (Vanina Vignal)