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Time spent watching films, even crappy ones, is time well-spent.

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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

8/16/2013

Shame (2011)

With the bare minimum of story and a serious economy of words, we see a sex addict at the top of his “game” start to lose it when his sister crashes at his place for a few days. It’s clear that there’s a weird history there, but we’re not clued in to what it is nor why they’re both so damaged. Fassbender is mesmerizing and the movie is like a poem -- a sordid, painful, quiet, wide open to interpretation (so sure to be misunderstood) poem.

And there's this little number, as a gorgeous bonus:


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