Review: Shame

There's something sordid about the whole experience of watching Shame - Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan as the siblings at the centre of the story let it all hang out there, both emotionally and at times quite literally physically too.

Enjoyable doesn't seem like the right word to describe this film, its far from fun to watch - but powerful, compelling and claustrophobic can all be applied to the second film from Steve McQueen. Fassbender is great as usual, with his distant portrayal of sex addict Brandon now drawing interesting parallels with his turn as android David in Prometheus - the emotional distance they both have giving them a not-quite human quality to them.

Shame is definitely one to watch on your own, but not for those reasons you might expect going into it.