Shortbus (2006)

Voti degli utenti:

6.8/10   

Regista:

John Cameron Mitchell

Sceneggiatore (WGA):

John Cameron Mitchell (written by)

Data di uscita:

6 ottobre 2006 (Canada)

Genere:

Drammatico | Romantico

Slogan:

Voyeurism is Participation

Plot:

A group of New Yorkers get caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.

Plot Keywords:

Depression | Dominatrix | Masturbation Scene | Beach | Sensory Deprivation

Premi:

6 wins & 5 nominations

Recensioni degli utenti:

Life and love in the New York City universe of the ultra-cool

Cast

Sook-Yin Lee	...	Sofia
Paul Dawson	...	James
Lindsay Beamish	...	Severin
PJ DeBoy	...	Jamie
Raphael Barker	...	Rob
Peter Stickles	...	Caleb, the Stalker
Jay Brannan	...	Ceth
Alan Mandell	...	Tobias, the Mayor
Adam Hardman	...	Jesse, the John
Ray Rivas	...	Shabbos Goy
Bitch	...	Bitch / Shortbus House Band
Shanti Carson	...	Leah, the Beautiful Couple
Justin Hagan	...	Brad
Jan Hilmer	...	Nick, the Beautiful Couple
Stephen Kent Jusick	...	Creamy

Alias:

The Sex Film Project (USA) (working title)
Shortbus - Dove tutto è permesso (Italy) [it]

Durata:

101 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sonoro:

Dolby Digital

Divieti:

Netherlands:16 | Canada:R (British Columbia/Ontario) | Finland:K-18 | UK:18 | Australia:R | USA:Unrated | Germany:18 | Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) | Sweden:15 | Norway:18 | Italy:VM18 | Hong Kong:III | New Zealand:R18 | Portugal:M/18 | Singapore:(Banned) | Japan:R-18 | Ireland:18 | South Korea:Limited (original rating) | Argentina:18 | France:-16 (with warning) | USA:TV-MA (TV rating) | South Korea:18 (re-rating) (2009)

Luoghi riprese:

New York City, New York, USA

Compagnia:

THINKFilm

Curiosità:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was going to fire Sook-Yin Lee when they learned that she was going to be participating in a film with explicit sexual content. Several prominent individuals came to her rescue, including Gus Van Sant, Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg and Julianne Moore, in successfully urging CBC to retain Lee as a member of their staff.

Errori:

Continuità: When James and Jamie are talking about Ceth and about their relationship, the dancer in the back goes from topless in one shot, to with a top in the next.

Citazioni:

Sofia: I'm pre-orgasmic.
Jamie: Does that mean you're about to have one?

Collegamenti:

incluso in Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus' (2007) (V)

Colonna sonora:

Surgery

Life and love in the New York City universe of the ultra-cool

Brilliant directing and writing by John Cameron Mitchell (he gave us "Hedwig"), and great acting from everyone, especially Justin Bond, Lindsay Beamish, Paul Dawson and PJ Deboy. Great musical numbers too! You'll laugh and cry, and come away wanting to see it again immediately. Much has been made of a few rather intimate and well-lit sex scenes, but if anyone over 16 can't handle them, he or she shouldn't be out at night.

It's all ultimately wondrous, and one of the great revelations of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where the audiences tend to be snotty and conspicuously unimpressed--but the screening of this movie was followed by parades and parties in the streets, with people carrying the stars on their shoulders, like they used to do with Verdi on opening nights in Milan. Lynne Cheney, sly pornographer that she is, will be eating her heart out that someone has gotten at last to the real g-spot of the cosmos, and it wasn't she what did it.

Love may be grim at times, kind of like Kansas, but Mitchell turns it into technicolor. Just like magic.