Movieline?s Interactive Shame Map: Explore NYC With Director Steve McQueen
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Among the most admired (and controversial) films of 2011 is also one of the most striking New York-set movies in years: Shame, director Steve McQueen’s unflinching glimpse inside the life of Manhattan professional Brandon Sullivan (Michael Fassbender) as he struggles with sex addiction and his reckless sibling Sissy (Carey Mulligan). The quotidian nature of Brandon’s routine — subway commutes, nondescript office work, late-night jogs — not only mask his emotional freefall, but belie the everyday tensions, pleasures, challenges and privileges associated with living in one of the world’s most intoxicating cities. Now you can tryst where Brandon trysts, drink where Brandon drinks, and brood where Brandon broods thanks to Movieline’s interactive Shame location map.
McQueen, who first visited New York as a child in 1977, said his ensuing trips to the city commenced an enduring fascination with the its inhabitants and functions. “I remember Elvis dying and the blackout,” he recalled in a recent chat with Movieline. “But the thing about Brandon — and it was very meticulous — was where he would live, where he would work, how he would travel to work, what he would eat, where he would eat, take-out, where he would do his laundry… etcetera, etcetera. So that was, for me, very important to me. By coincidence, people talk about it being a ‘New York movie,’ but really, it was about his ritual. That was it.”
After developing international renown as both a visual artist and a feature filmmaker (his debut Hunger, also starring Fassbender,…
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