Daniela Sea, Jay Brannan, Justin Bond
The film follows a varied group of seven people, among them a dominatrix and a sex therapist, as they navigate between the paths of sex and love in modern-day New York City.
DVD Release Date: March 13, 2007
Stats: 4,044 reviews
There are some nice story lines in this film, I did enjoy it but it was not as good as the brilliant Hedwig! It?s very naughty! Looking forward to seeing more from john Cameron Mitchell, he is a fantastic director!
"Voyeurism is Participation"
A group of New Yorkers get caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
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The film is essentially not about sex, but about people who find that sex is the only way they can communicate with one another. Unfortunately, the film follows too many characters and gets extremely tedious in its last act.
Well, this certainly was a unique film.
A minute or so in the movie, we're met with a still static shot of a penis. This is director John Cameron Mitchell's way of telling us "This is a penis. There's not much to it, but you'll be seeing a lot of them in this film. If you're unc...( read more)
''New York is where everyone comes to be forgiven.''
A group of New Yorkers get caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
Sook-Yin Lee: Sofia
Paul Dawson: Ja...( read more)
very interesting and a good look at our world we never get to here about in main stream media I like John Cameron Mitchell style of directing
This was a big disappointment for me, after looking forward to seeing what the creator of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' would do next. I read someone else's review, and they mentioned that they thought the film was let down because of the characters. I would have to agree. They wer...( read more)
A rather sweet, wistful little movie that just happens to have a lot of explicit sex in it. full review
Suffers from a vague, ad lib-y script and a cast that, while hardly shy, isn't exactly charismatic. full review
[Mitchell] reclaims sex -- filming it, watching it, talking about it, doing it -- as something both deeply funny and transcendently human: a revolving door that leads to the senses and to the heart. full review
It's a grand ambition, only partially realized. But watching Mitchell try makes for an exhilarating trip. full review
The movie is so open about sex, and approaches it with such affectionate bewilderment, that it feels like an anomaly in our so-called sex-obsessed culture: I've felt sleazier looking at ads for Captai... full review
Never amounts to more than a case of hardcore triviality. full review
I hate when people focus on sex instead of taking the ride along with the actors and the plot and THEN judging the entire movie, not only the sex. This movie suffered the same lame comments as "9 songs" did with the difference that this one survives every single stupid remark about "How graphic it is!"... in Winterbottom's film, the cinematography played a huge role along with the editing and the concerts scenes. The performances were great and the screenplay, as simple and tiny as it was, showed us what was the actually important thing about the film: the relationship between the two main characters, their painful love and their way to communicate through sex... However, in Cameron Mitchell's movie (shall we called it his masterpiece?), the screenplay goes way beyond relationships and sex: it deals with loneliness and frustration as nobody else does.
I watched Shortbus last night and unlike most movies today it has stayed with me playing over in my head all day. I went back and watched some scenes three times over. The movie is very multi-dimensional and I really ended up caring about what happened to the characters Cudos to John Cameron Mitchell for a job weel done.As for th graphic sex it was real it was raw it was about time.
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