Shame
Successful and handsome New Yorker Brandon seems to live an ordinary life, but he hides a terrible secret behind his mask of normalcy: Brandon is a sex addict. His days are disrupted when his sister arrives unannounced for an indefinite stay.
31 October 1969, Long Island, New York, USA
27 January 1970, Rockville Center, Long Island, New York, USA
21 August 1975, Casablanca, Morocco
2 April 1977, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
1984, Tottenville, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
23 October 1998, USA
28 May 1985, Westminster, London, England, UK
22 April 1960, Queens, New York, USA
1 May 1978, New York City, New York, USA
19 April 1982, Madrid, Spain
May 03, 2015
The ferocity of the performances and McQueen's formal relentlessness left me pulverized.
January 20, 2012
The film is a raw, unsparing look at the downside of humanity.
December 15, 2011
[Fassbender is] so good as a man completely lost to his baser impulses that it makes "Shame" worth sitting through. Enjoying? That's a relative term. But you'll certainly appreciate it.
June 30, 2013
A solid character study that is difficult to enjoy but hard not to appreciate.
October 05, 2016
Michael Fassbender is everywhere right now for a reason: his performance is fantastic.
June 20, 2013
The film's numb attitude assumes that Brandon's problem is beyond reach or rescue. So why are we watching, except for high-tone misery and something close to pornography?
January 10, 2012
It reconfirms McQueen as a filmmaker with an unflinching, microscopic gaze on the world.
October 07, 2015
By the time Brandon's quite literally cruising for a bruising, the film has no credibility left whatsoever.
December 16, 2011
Shame is something of a dirty date that leaves you wondering what went wrong.
June 23, 2013
The New York City of "Shame" is a place so cold, so distanced, so removed from flesh-and-blood humanity, that it's the only place a man like Brandon can truly be alone.
December 29, 2011
Few filmmakers have plumbed the soul-churning depths of sexual addiction as fearlessly as British director Steve McQueen has in Shame.
