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Shortbus [2006] | ![Shortbus [2006]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fxlMJ5bLL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Actors: Yolanda Ross, Lindsay Beamish, Sook-yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Pj Deboy
Studio: Universal Pictures Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 1474
Format: Anamorphic, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582483062
ASIN: B000NT6HRI
Release Date: June 18, 2007
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In his aim to make an honest film about sex, John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) has taken a somewhat documentary approach to Shortbus, a film describing various New Yorkers' sexual pathos. Framed by shots roving a homemade diorama of the city, Shortbus is comprised of vignettes featuring actors who helped craft this story of people's disconnect in sexual endeavors. Jamie (PJ DeBoy) and James (Paul Dawson), a gay couple experiencing a lull in their relationship, visit Sophia (Sook-Yin Lee), a sex therapist whose inability to orgasm results in her clients inviting her to a sex club after which the film is titled. Sophia's husband, Rob (Raphael Barker), is also willing to experiment, so the two independently embark on adventures in self-pleasure. Dominatrix Severin (Lindsay Beamish) plays a crucial role in Sophia and Rob's lives, as her search for real humanity overlaps with their desire for passion. As each character's plot complicates, the viewer sees a similar melancholy bulldozing its way into these seemingly disparate lives. The depression is repeatedly used in comedic scenes, such as when James is asked on a date while still hospitalised for his attempted suicide. Yo La Tengo's score, which includes Animal Collective among others, lends this film a graceful ambience. Unlike porn, Shortbus has a resonance that encourages the viewer to consider one's own sex life as an important aspect of happiness. --Trinie Dalton
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 Ban this filth! March 4, 2007
jrhartley
66 out of 68 found this review helpful
Shortbus - "a salon for the gifted and challenged". The story is based around Brooklyn's D.U.M.B.O. club (called ShortBus in this film - a reference to the shorter yellow buses that are provided for less-able / special-needs kids in NY) and follows the crossing of paths of the main protagonists therein: Sofia - a sex therapist ("I prefer `couples councillor'") who is "pre-orgasmic" and her partner Rob; a gay couple - Jamie and James, one of whom is manic depressive, and looking to open up the relationship, and a dominatrix by the alais of Severin (who is just looking for a "real human interaction"), all stage managed by Justin Bond - the mistress of Shortbus.
Set against the electrical brown & black-outs that afflicted Manhattan shortly after 9/11, this film sets out to contrast the intensity of their sexual energy and the frequent absence of emotional depth ("I can see the love, but it stops at my skin") - successfully using the parallel of how day to day the energy of the city (the sex) keeps it ticking over, but you need to feel the intimacy of love (the black outs that didn't lead to the widespread looting the NYPD predicted but instead acted as a cohesive moment for the NYC communities).
The film is extremely sexual graphic in places - and I expect will or already has ellicited a campaign by the Daily Mail to "BAN THIS FILTH!". It's far more extreme than Winterbottom's Nine Songs - previously the most "sexually shocking" mainstream UK film - was, and the uncensored nature of these scenes is a tool that director John Cameron Mitchell uses to convey the intensity of the sexual relationships. So, this is definitely not a film you'd want to in the presence of your parents. Whilst the orgies and ejaculations might be the reason the film has attained so much notoriety, it would be a shame if you were put off by the film's sexually explicit nature - I wouldn't have said the sex is gratuitous - it serves to demonstrate the emotionally vapid nature of some of the main characters' lives, and the director also skilfully addresses the wider emotional context. This film rarely misses a beat throughout and finishes with a lavish crescendo that can't help but make you feel that you've felt something as you leave the cinema. Don't accept any edited or censored versions.
Finally, REAL relationships..... March 24, 2007
Mr. A. R. Coleman (Stuttgart, Germany)
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
This film is awesome, and touches you because it is real, funny heartbreaking and approaches its admitadely not-for-the-fainthearted story with a style that has been missing from anything I have ever seen, and having no life I watch a lot of movies.
The characters are depicted as real people, not glorified superhumans like is typical in more mainstream cinema, and the use of sex has really been overplayed. Most of what you see you can identified with becuase it, and the whole movie, just feels real. Sex is treated not just as a psysical pleasure, but as a pysical response to emotional and mental requirements, needs, wants. This film is deep, absorbing and brilliant.
This film should be watched by everyone. And it is not a 'gay' movie, a lot of the movie follows straight character, so no excuses people, just watch it
Gutted the release date has been put back.
A very rewarding watch July 23, 2007
Aoin Douglas (Liverpool, England)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A very nicely put together, warm-hearted comedy featuring a Chinese Canadian sex therapist and her search for the Holy Grail of her first orgasm. Extremely explicit but not excessively so given the context. Depictions of male homosexuality that would normally cause extreme discomfort seem par for the course and are not in the least problematic to watch. The story is very nice with plenty of humourous twists and, increasingly, moments of great pathos. It actually affected me quite a bit as I watched it. As the film progressed all the characters managed to generate feelings of sympathy in one way or another, often quite unexpected. By the end I really did feel all warm inside.
A 5 star chick-flick, provided you know the chick in question pretty well!
Hysterical but thoughful too. May 11, 2008
squeeze (Oxford, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Cant understand the few negative reviews on here. Aside from the explicit opening scenes, which themselves are cleverly edited and intercut, there is a hysterical rendition of the star spangled banner later on with ingenious use of (male) body parts. Admitedly you'd have to be pretty broadminded to enjoy this film, but this is defintely not porn. The acting is of a very high calibre, the script is witty and the direction is excellent. I'd love to see the sequel. I'd also be interested to see these actors in a mainstream film just to see what they can really do. The extra features on this DVD set are also worth a look.
Brilliant film, great dvd January 10, 2008
Mr. H. Earle
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Film 5 stars for interest, originality, daring, honesty and technical execution.
DVD 4 stars for price, design, extras - deleted scenes and making of.
4.5 rounds up to 5!
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