Shame (film)

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Movie
Original title Shame
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Steve McQueen
script Steve McQueen, Abi Morgan
production Iain Canning , Emile Sherman
music Harry Escott
camera Sean Bobbitt
cut Joe Walker
occupation
synchronization

Shame ( English for shame / embarrassment ) is a feature film by the British director Steve McQueen from the year 2011. The drama is based on an original screenplay by McQueen and Abi Morgan and depicts a young sex-addicted New York businessman at the center, whose life by visiting his Sister is out of joint.

action

The handsome Brandon is in his 30s, lives in New York and has a well-paid job in advertising. He appears cultivated, friendly and elegant. Little did those around him know that Brandon is addicted to sex and that he is getting lost in his preoccupation with pornography. He calls prostitutes into his apartment, has sex outdoors with a female bar acquaintance, masturbates in the shower and in the office toilet, and even watches porn on the Internet at his workplace . At the same time, Brandon is afraid of intimacy.

At the beginning of the film, Brandon rides the subway and makes eye contact with a strange woman wearing a ring. At first she is obviously taken with him, but at the stop she escapes the subway. Brandon follows her, but loses her in the crush of the station. On his answering machine there are messages from his sister that Brandon urgently asks to call in, as she allegedly suffers from cancer and has only a short time to live. Brandon doesn't respond to this, however.

One day, Brandon receives an unexpected visit from his younger, mentally unstable sister Sissy, with whom he had a difficult childhood. Just as lonely as her brother, Sissy openly admits the pain and hopes that Brandon will take care of her. Brandon lets her sleep on the sofa in his apartment for a few days, on condition that she doesn't interfere in his life. The singer, who has so far been denied great success, interprets the Frank Sinatra song New York, New York in a nightclub visited by Brandon and his supervisor David in such a sad way that Brandon comes to tears. Then she spends the night with the married David in Brandon's apartment. This annoys and frustrates Brandon. He agrees to meet his colleague Marianne. She is amazed that Brandon's longest relationship did not last longer than four months and that he does not want to see any sense in longer relationships. She, on the other hand, seems to be interested in a serious relationship. After Sissy surprised him while masturbating and found cybersex contacts on his computer, he dumped his extensive porn collection and laptop.

Brandon persuades Marianne to take him to a hotel in the middle of the day. But he fails to have sex with her. Instead, a short time later, he has sex with a prostitute in the same hotel room. Brandon throws his sister out of the apartment and now gives himself even more to his addiction. In a bar he tries to seduce a young woman in a very direct way. He then provokes their friend and is beaten up by him. After being turned away by the bouncer at a club he knows, he goes to a gay club and has sex with a stranger. Then he has sex with two women. After this night of sexual escapades, he heard that his sister - after unsuccessful attempts to reach him by phone - left a message on his answering machine saying that they were both not bad people, but only came from a bad place. When he can't reach her by phone, Brandon runs home, where he finds Sissy with her wrists cut open. She can be saved and will be taken to a hospital.

In the morning Brandon falls on his knees crying on the banks of the Hudson. In the subway, he makes eye contact with the same strange woman again. With her eyes she sends him a signal to follow her. When she got up and stood alone at the car door to get off the train, the film fades out.

production

Michael Fassbender at the screening of the film in Toronto

In his second film after Hunger (2008), McQueen again entrusted the German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender with the male lead. “Michael Fassbender changed acting for me. He's the only one that comes into question for me. I've seen a lot of actors and they just act. It's different with Michael. He doesn't act, he feels. ”Says the director. The title of the film alludes to the shame many of the men McQueen interviewed beforehand would have felt after having sex. “[...] to get rid of this feeling, they [the men] just keep going. It's like a suction that they can't get rid of, ”says McQueen. He saw New York as a 24-hour city of “excess and access” and therefore relocated the plot to the United States . Both Hunger and Shame are both films about "politics and freedom". “Hunger was about a man without freedom who used his body as a political instrument and through this act created his own independence. Shame looks at a person who has all of the Western freedoms and who, through their apparent sexual permissiveness, creates their own prison, ”said McQueen.

Shame premiered in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival . The film was released in the UK on January 13, 2012 in Germany on March 1, 2012. The film was co-funded by the two British production companies See-Saw Films and Film4 and supported by the UK Film Council .

reception

Shame premiered on September 4, 2011 at the 68th Venice Film Festival. The film received great recognition for the acting performances of its two main actors Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. Fassbender was often named as a favorite for the actor's award, and the film was one of the favorites for the Golden Lion.

British press reviews

The British newspaper The Guardian praised the film for its "impressive spectacle services" and Carey Mulligan "unforgettable performance" of New York, New York . The Evening Standard highlighted the acting performance of Michael Fassbender. McQueen's directing is "no doubt powerful and uncompromising," especially during the sex scenes. The few references to the origin of Brandon's “sexual prison” , which were apparently to be found in the siblings' past, were objected to. According to the Daily Telegraph , the two screenwriters McQueen and Morgan would not moralize. Single bars, dating rituals and sex clubs are portrayed as "infernal" in the film . McQueen is a "highly talented filmmaker" and uses every shot with "rare verve" . The film will "undoubtedly prove to be too strong for many stomachs" . The acting performances are "flawless" . Independent Extra compared the character of Brandon more to the antihero Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver than to Casanova . In its physical intensity, Fassbender is reminiscent of the best American method acting . The film itself was shot in cool, strict images, was "grueling" and contained little dialogue. It is frustrating that the script provides little background to Brandon's character or his parents, which allows conclusions to be drawn about the origin of his behavior.

German speaking media

According to Dietmar Dath ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ), Shame, in contrast to Hunger, does not contain any form boldness, but the renewed trust in the main actor is justified. The film is a "stylish excursion into naked despair" . McQueen placed the well-composed images “unobtrusively and subtly, in a completely natural flow” , according to Susan Vahabzadeh ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ). The people appearing in the film are often shown behind glass - the director watches the audience as the freedom melts between their fingers. According to Daniel Kothenschulte from the Frankfurter Rundschau , one of the strengths of the “masterful drama” lies in not moralizing and in the astonishing “sensuality in which the absence of feelings is conveyed” . Susanne Ostwald ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung ) noticed static, sober film images, which would bring the “brilliant achievements” of the two actors Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan to the fore. McQueen's second film is "a haunting study of loneliness and creeping despair" . Katja Nicodemus ( Die Zeit ) interpreted the film as "the sub-section of Sex and the City : a film about the city of New York as the capital of compulsive dating and after-work-fucks" . Brandon's life construction is "a system of controlledness, almost autistic introversion and manic sexual activity" , a "study of a pain overlaid by obsession" . Even Wolfgang Höbel ( Spiegel Online ) titled Brandon as a "porn autistic" than figure that was occupied in its interior completely from their sexual fantasies without compassion and self-determination. The film has numerous sex scenes that are arranged with “great art” and “coldness” . Christiane Peitz ( Der Tagesspiegel ) also pointed out the very “joyless” depicted sex, which she interpreted as an expression of existential despair and emotional impotence, which apparently originated in the character's childhood, but which was “wisely” left out. Brandon's stupor breaks up only for a moment at the New York, New York interpretation of his sister.

According to Anke Westphal ( Berliner Zeitung ), “neediness and rejection, manipulation and analysis are fatally supported” in the psychodrama . Shame is not always able to maintain his cold tension, while Fassbender is a favorite for the actor's award. One of the few negative votes was that of Cristina Nord ( the daily newspaper ). Nord rated the film as a "softened version of Bret Easton Ellis ' novel American Psycho . " Nudity and sex scenes are calculated and would annoy the viewer.

Awards

Shame won the Coppa Volpi Acting Award for Michael Fassbender, the FIPRESCI Award , the Premio Arca Cinema Giovani and the Premio CinemAvvenire at the Venice Film Festival . Fassbender also won awards from the National Board of Review , the Los Angeles Film Critics Association , the British Independent Film Award , the Online Film Critics Society Award, and a Golden Globe nomination. Carey Mulligan won the Hollywood Film Award for Best Supporting Actress of the year that same year, as well as for her performance in Drive . In 2012, five nominations for the European Film Awards followed for best film, best director, actor, camera and editor. Cinematographer Sean Bobbitt and film editor Joe Walker won the awards.

In 2016, Shame ranked 81st in a BBC poll of the 100 most important films of the 21st century .

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created under the direction of Christa Kistner Synchronproduktion GmbH, Potsdam, based on the dialogue book by Dr. Beate Klöckner , who also directed the dialogue .

actor role Voice actor
Michael Fassbender Brandon Sullivan Norman Matt
Carey Mulligan Sissy Sullivan Vera Teltz
James Badge Dale David Fisher Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Nicole Beharie Marianne Anja Stadlober
Rachel Farrar Rachel Judith Hoersch

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Shame . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 416 K).
  2. Interview  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with Steve McQueen at arte.tv (accessed September 10, 2011).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.arte.tv  
  3. a b c Brown, Mark: Sex and spies . In: The Guardian , September 5, 2011, p. 14.
  4. Profile ( Memento of the original from December 7th, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org (accessed September 10, 2011). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.labiennale.org
  5. Release dates for Shame in the Internet Movie Database (accessed September 10, 2011).
  6. ^ Company credits for Shame in the Internet Movie Database (accessed September 10, 2011).
  7. ^ Ostwald, Susanne: The inspection of human conditions . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 7, 2011, No. 208, p. 53.
  8. Malcolm, Derek: Venice Film Festival . In: The Evening Standard , September 5, 2011.
  9. Gritten, David: Tough, uncomfortable and a wonderful film . In: The Daily Telegraph . September 5, 2011, p. 29.
  10. McNab, Geoffrey: Shame . In: Independent Extra , September 6, 2011, p. 14.
  11. Dath, Dietmar: The Sexus, regarded as a hell machine . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 5, 2011, No. 206, p. 29.
  12. Vahabzadeh, Susan: Sex and Shame . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 6, 2011, p. 13.
  13. Kothenschulte, Daniel: "We all don't know what we are doing" . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 1, 2012.
  14. Ostwald, Susanne. Once upon a time in Tehran . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 5, 2011, No. 206, p. 36.
  15. Nicodemus, Katja: Departure to hell . In: Die Zeit , September 8, 2011, No. 37, p. 66.
  16. ^ Höbel, Wolfgang: Klarer Fall von Porno-Autismus bei Spiegel Online , September 6, 2011 (accessed September 10, 2011).
  17. Peitz, Christiane: The love of others . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 5, 2011, No. 21087, p. 23.
  18. ^ Westphal, Anke: Loud questions of access films by Al Pacino, Steven Soderbergh and Satrapi / Paronnaud at the Venice festival . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 5, 2011, No. 207, p. 26.
  19. Nord, Cristina: Too much charisma . In: the daily newspaper , 6 September 2011, p. 16.
  20. Peter Zander: Golden Lion for the Russian film "Faust". September 10, 2011, accessed November 8, 2016 .
  21. Collateral Awards 2011 ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, September 10, 2011 (accessed September 10, 2011). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.labiennale.org
  22. a b Shame. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on December 31, 2016 .