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Hunger
Why this pick
McQueen’s debut shares Shame’s severe visual control, bodily intensity, and refusal to soften alienated suffering; it is more political, but equally intimate and punishing.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2011 1h 41m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
A spare, quietly devastating portrait of a man moving through privileged social spaces while unable to reconnect with life, matching Shame’s emotional isolation and observational restraint.
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Why this pick
Its drifting urban day and painfully tentative encounters echo Shame’s sense of someone trapped inside compulsion, self-disgust, and a longing for genuine closeness.
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The Wrestler
Why this pick
Like Shame, it puts a physically exposed, self-destructive man at the center and finds raw vulnerability in his failed attempts at intimacy and repair.
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Fish Tank
Why this pick
Andrea Arnold’s tactile realism and unflinching attention to damaged boundaries make this another intense character study where desire, shame, and vulnerability collide.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Brandon Sullivan is a New York City executive and long-term bachelor. He is a sex addict who frequently has sex with prostitutes and masturbates several times daily, sometimes viewing pornography on his work computers. One day Brandon makes eye contact with a woman wearing an engagement ring on the subway during his morning commute. She initially reciprocates, but becomes uncomfortable. When they exit, she disappears into the crowd. He masturbates in the bathroom afterwards at work. Brandon and his married boss, David, hit on women at a club; later, Brandon has sex on a quiet street with Elizabeth, the woman David was pursuing.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Michael Fassbender
Brandon Sullivan
Carey Mulligan
Sissy Sullivan
Nicole Beharie
Marianne
James Badge Dale
David
Alex Manette
Steven
Hannah Ware
Samantha
Anna Rose Hopkins
Carly
Lucy Walters
Woman on Subway Train