'Shame' brings sex addiction to Venice
September 5, 2011, Monday
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UP-AND-COMING Irish actor Michael Fassbender plays a sex addict in "Shame," a movie by British video artist Steve McQueen that is vying for the top prize at the Venice film festival.
It is the second lead role for Fassbender in a competition movie at this year's festival after his portrayal of psychoanalyst Carl Jung in David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method."
In "Shame," German-born Fassbender is Brandon, a handsome, 30-something executive living in New York whose only distraction from work is seducing women, and masturbating while looking for sex on the Internet.
The tightly controlled rhythm of his life begins to fall apart when his needy, dysfunctional sister Sissy, played by Carey Mulligan, arrives for an unannounced visit.
Her presence, and her craving for Brandon's attention, disrupt his lonely existence even further, and his only way out seems to be wandering the streets at night in search of new sexual adventures.
Fassbender, whose portrayal of Brandon was warmly applauded after a press screening yesterday, said taking part in the film's graphic sex scenes was not easy.
"Yes (it was) uncomfortable doing the sex scenes. You just have to jump and turn real.
"The most important thing, I guess, is that everybody involved feels as comfortable as they can. And then just go for it so you do not have to do too many takes."
McQueen, whose debut film was the widely acclaimed "Hunger," about the last months of Irish Republican Army activist Bobby Sands in Belfast's Maze prison, said he saw similarities between the two films.
It is the second lead role for Fassbender in a competition movie at this year's festival after his portrayal of psychoanalyst Carl Jung in David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method."
In "Shame," German-born Fassbender is Brandon, a handsome, 30-something executive living in New York whose only distraction from work is seducing women, and masturbating while looking for sex on the Internet.
The tightly controlled rhythm of his life begins to fall apart when his needy, dysfunctional sister Sissy, played by Carey Mulligan, arrives for an unannounced visit.
Her presence, and her craving for Brandon's attention, disrupt his lonely existence even further, and his only way out seems to be wandering the streets at night in search of new sexual adventures.
Fassbender, whose portrayal of Brandon was warmly applauded after a press screening yesterday, said taking part in the film's graphic sex scenes was not easy.
"Yes (it was) uncomfortable doing the sex scenes. You just have to jump and turn real.
"The most important thing, I guess, is that everybody involved feels as comfortable as they can. And then just go for it so you do not have to do too many takes."
McQueen, whose debut film was the widely acclaimed "Hunger," about the last months of Irish Republican Army activist Bobby Sands in Belfast's Maze prison, said he saw similarities between the two films.
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