Shortbus (Unrated Edition)
by John Cameron Mitchell
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Actor: Lindsay Beamish, Paul Dawson, PJ DeBoy, Raphael Barker, Sook-Yin LeeDirector: John Cameron Mitchell
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
DVD Reviews of Shortbus (Unrated Edition)
DVD Review: Tedious and not interesting
Summary: 3 Stars
This was not what I expected, and starting off with the (SPOILER) scene with the voyeur looking in on him masturbating into his mouth just kinda killed it for me. The whole thing was a total romp on the gay side and didn't deviate far from that. The plot was thin, non-gay sex scenes solidly boring, and overall not worth the film it was put on.DVD Review: Fantastic and spellbinding
Summary: 5 Stars
The extensive nudity and sexual situations (very strong and not for any children under 17) may detract from the story the first time you watch this film. I suggest you watch it again. The profound stories revolving around several people trying to find themselves and to cope with life are heartfelt in every way. All lives cross in an uplifting ending that will have you feeling wonderful!DVD Review: Interesting ride on the Shortbus.
Summary: 3 Stars
Interesting story full of sexuality and graphic sex. I am heterosexual and enjoyed the "straight" sex scenes, especially the asian woman's storyline. If you are squeemish about watching gay sex, you will have to fast forward through some parts, or simply do not order the movie. The movie is about several characters that visit a NYC ungerground club called "Shortbus". There is plenty of gay and straight sex alike. The unique idea of an independent movie showing hardcore sex is one that packs an erotic punch. Remember, this is NOT a porno movie, just a movie that tells a story and happens to show all the details.DVD Review: What passes and feature length porn...
Summary: 4 Stars
The Shortbus was nothing more than soft/hardcore porn. I mixed the label to say that there was alot (the entire background in one scene) of sex happening, but it wasn't too much for the premise of the movie. It opens with one of the lead characters sucking HIMSELF off. Then the sexual content get more intense from that point on. I recommend the movie, if you feel like, as the director says, 'a story that happens to have real sex in it'. But the plot of the psychiatrist trying to find HER orgasm seem a little but crazy (in a good way), as soft porn usually does.
The characters are interesting and cute enough to have you follow on their journey, but what else is there?
DVD Review: America matures and "Oh, to live forever on Sugar Mountain"
Summary: 4 Stars
Similar in structure to 1992's "Chain of Desire", a little-seen film about a circle of New York lovers connected by sexuality, a club scene, and a music score, ( and to a much older film called "La Ronde"), "Shortbus" is upbeat, optimistic, and post-AIDS hysteria (while still being conscious of safe sex) whereas "Chain of Desire" hinged on that dark thread connecting its ill-fated characters. Mitchell's second film is quite mature, and remarkably sweet. It's nice to see a film where people strive towards being conscious and kind; it's also nice to view something where straight, gay and every variation in between mingle with respect and regard to each other without the usual American 'tee-hee-hee' around sex, and money-machine ogres of Falwell and Warren hanging around to cash in and give guilt.
Central to the film, and quietly integral, is music from Yo la Tengo, and several songs including "Upside Down" and "Far from the Sea" and "Language" are quite catchy and memorable. These pieces color the film emotionally and supply a pad for the crises depicted amongst its protoganists, played so well by Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, PJ DeBoy, Julian Bond, and others. Mitchell has coaxed remarkable performances from actors who also contributed to the script. I found myself quite endeared to them all and wishing I knew them personally.
If the low-budget endeavor has any flaws at all, it is Mitchell's sometimes obvious hand at making things fit into the structure, but this is a minor gripe since the film is almost a musical-of-sorts, and one expects some suspension of so-called 'reality'. Moreover, Mitchell is to be commended for his resoluteness is staying with this project for so many years, enlisting so many who believed in it and took career and emotional risks to make it the sweet, non-pornographic experiment that it is.
The film does make one pine, in a fashion, for these years between 25-35 if he or she has already passed through them, when clubs are crucial to one's life, when one is so desperately trying to anchor oneself in a meaningful style of living and loving. I will be anxious to see what kind of Film Mitchell makes about his Forties.
Highly recommended. As for the sexuality, well, it's hardly pornographic, except to a sick mind, and handled quite beautifully. And even though the droll, den-mother Julian Bond quips at one point in the film as he watches the rosy-lit orgy with the enchanting Sook-Yin, "It's like the 60s, darling, but with less hope," one senses there is, indeed, hope amongst this generation that plows ahead towards authenticity in the wake of prior generation(s) - some members who survived and many who didn't - who rose above the excreble muck of Anita Bryant, Falwell and the rest who sought to control the bodies -- and minds -- of Americans with fear and shame.
Description of Shortbus (Unrated Edition)
From the director of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' comes SHORTBUS, an exploration into the lives of several characters living in present-day New York as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex. Male and female, straight and gay, the characters find one another - and eventually find themselves - when they all converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a mad world of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality. One of the true sensations of this year's Cannes Film Festival, presents sex and sexuality as never before seen in mainstream entertainment, and promises to be one of the most talked-about films for months - and years - to come.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 hospitalized 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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