Shame
Some desires can’t be tamed… and some lives can’t escape them
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10/2/2011Runtime
102 minsGenres
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Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.
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A brutally intimate portrait of a man spiraling through compulsion and denial, filmed with unflinching precision as his carefully constructed isolation collapses. The film watches without flinching or sentimentality, letting discomfort be its own kind of honesty.
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