1328 Montana Avenue (at 14th Street)
Santa Monica, California 90403

Tuesday, April 17 – 7:30 PM
SHAME, 2011, Fox Searchlight, 101 min. Brandon (a superb Michael Fassbender) is a quietly affable Wall Street type living in Manhattan who carries the private burden of a consuming sex addiction. When his younger sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan, never better) arrives at his apartment unannounced and in need of a place to stay, Brandon finds his world of controlled secrecy thrown into crisis. Director Steve McQueen's beautifully elegiac portrait of a man battling his demons was nominated for numerous critics awards, and was an official selection of the Venice, Toronto and New York film festivals in 2011. Panel discussion following on “SHAME and Sex Addiction” with sex experts Alexandra Katehakis (clinical director of the Center for Healthy Sex and author of Erotic Intelligence), Chris Donaghue (host of Logo TV’s “Bad Sex”) and Ethlie Ann Vare (author of Love Addict: Sex, Romance and Other Dangerous Drugs), and three anonymous sex addicts. [35mm]
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