Intimate Strangers

A beautiful Parisian woman opens the wrong door and steps into a dizzying psychological mystery that will forever change two lives in Patrice Leconte's Intimate Strangers (Confidences Trop Intimes). Leconte's 20th feature film - the follow-up to his acclaimed Man on The Train -- is a provocative love story masked in the guise of a suspense thriller. It all begins when the troubled Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire) makes a mistake on her way to visit a psychiatrist. Accidentally choosing the wrong office, she is greeted by William Faber (Fabrice Luchini) who, unbeknownst to Anna, is actually a mild-mannered tax accountant. Anna explains that she has arrived in a state of personal emergency, and, before William can protest, begins to expose the most intimate details of her marriage and sex life. Startled and secretly riveted, William does not have the heart to tell this distraught woman his true identity. Playing along with her misconception, he accepts another appointment as her therapist. On her second visit, William tries his best to level with Anna, but gets nowhere. Desperate to undo his error, William even attempts to hunt Anna down, asking his neighbor, the psychiatrist she was supposed to see - Dr. Monnier (Michel Duchaussoy) - for her phone number, which only leads to William momentarily becoming a patient of the endlessly philosophical doctor. Disappearing into thin air, Anna becomes William's obsession.