I saw Shame this morning at the London Film Festival and it hasn’t left my mind for a moment since.
It is powerful filmmaking from a director whose deft touch and innate intelligence and understanding of how to render emotional states on screen makes this a worthy follow up to his debut film, Hunger, which also benefited from the magnetic screen presence of Michael Fassbender.
My review will be up on the site shortly, you may have seen that we posted the first trailer for the film which was released earlier today and we’ve been sent a link to edited highlights of the press conference held this morning following the screening I was at.
It’s a fascinating watch and interesting to see the considerations which went into the film. Shame is out on the 13th of January next year – make sure you have that date in your diary. Here’s the video,
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