
Brandon is a 30-something man living in New York who is unable to manage his sex life. After his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment, Brandon's world spirals out of control. Shame examines the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us.... (Full plot summary below)
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Brandon is a 30-something man living in New York who is unable to manage his sex life. After his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment, Brandon's world spirals out of control. Shame examines the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us.
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| We Got This CoveredKristal CooperShame is an elegant, art-tinged character study that that will hover in your psyche for a long time after you see it. |
| Fresno BeeDonald MunroAn exercise in sadness so deep and aching that it's like plunging ever downward into a midnight-black lake and never touching the bottom. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinIt's McQueen's astonishing knack for layering thought itself into his images that really stuns, and Shame is packed with scenes which are both immaculately composed and seething with meaning. |
| Daily Mirror (UK)David EdwardsA scene where [Fassbender's] on the Tube checking out a woman, who just happens to be wearing a wedding ring, is chillingly clever. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsNo one will fail to find, in this strange, disturbing jewel, some reflecting facet of himself or herself. |
| Sky CinemaFrancesca SteeleThe key is Fassbender, who is terrifyingly good. |
| VarietyJustin ChangA mesmerizing companion piece to his 2008 debut, "Hunger," this more approachable but equally uncompromising drama likewise fixes its gaze on the uses and abuses of the human body, as Michael Fassbender again strips himself down, in every way an actor can, for McQueen's rigorous but humane interrogation. |
| TheDivaReview.comDiva VelezA stark and stunning portrait of addiction and its resulting damage. Provocative, intelligent and emotionally wrenching, Shame is one of the best films of the year. |
| San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliShame has a lolling pace and stunning visual clarity. Structurally, it's close to perfect - its precision echoed in the Glenn Gould piano recordings of Bach keyboard works that Brandon listens to obsessively. |
| Newark Star-LedgerStephen Whitty"Shame" is all about weakness and compulsion. It's not about the joy of sex. It's about the utter despair it can't conceal. |