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# Shortbus [DVD] [2006]

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Product Description               Risqué sexual politics drama about a gang of young New Yorkers. Directed by John Cameron Mitchell of 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' fame, 'Shortbus' is an even more explicit look at the margins of sexuality. Sofia (Sook Yin Lee) is a sex counselor who has never achieved orgasm. Previously staid and a confirmed heterosexual, she is drawn into the world of orgiastic bisexual sex parties by a gay couple, Jamie and James, (PJ DeBoy and Paul Dawson) whom she is treating. Becoming a regular at the Shortbus parties, Sofia is soon attempting, frustratedly, to achieve the pinnacle she seeks with a dominatrix called Severin (Lindsay Beamish). Jamie and James' sex life becomes complicated with the addition of a third party, Ceth (Jay Brannan). The film's sexual content is apparently real and not stylised in any way and there are graphic portrayals of gay and heterosexual sex throughout.                  .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

## Product Details

- **Format:** Anamorphic, Colour, Dolby, PAL, Widescreen
- **Contributor:** Alan Mandell, Bitch, Jay Brannan, John Cameron Mitchell, Justin Bond, Lindsay Beamish, PJ DeBoy, Paul Dawson, Peter Stickles, Raphael Barker, Ray Rivas, Shanti Carson, Sook Yin Lee, Tim Perell, Yo La Tengo
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 41 minutes
- **Colour:** Colour

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Recommended
*by J***N on 7 May 2011*

This film is a very cheerful, humorous and winning film that celebrates the diversity of human sexuality. This means that it's going to annoy some people. If you're looking for porn, you're not looking for diversity: frankly be better off buying something that appeals directly to whatever kink you have. For others it may open the mind to other possibilities, and I think it's a good watch for couples particularly. I enjoyed it very much - it's very likeable and jolly pic that encourages you to relax and enjoy yourself and put aside your prejudices about other people's behaviour. Of course there is explicit sex in it, and I feel that it's more positive than that in some of the real-sex movies we've seen recently, such as Romance and 9 Songs, which in an effort to avoid the charge of pornography seem to portray shagging as rather shabby, guilty pursuits. I liked one small relationship between an old and a young man, which is rather touching.It's worth watching the extras, particularly the orgy sequence material in which the actor playing Leah asks the director to wait a second as she really needs to cum...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A 'Footloose' for the post-9/11 audience
*by L***1 on 17 December 2007*

For anyone who was wondering what 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'-meister John Cameron Mitchell had been up to since that film came out, well, he was making this little baby. Shortbus is billed as being shocking, sexually explicit and whatever else, but while it may be the most sexually explicit 'mainstream' movie I've ever seen (the opening sequence intercuts between a man pleasuring himself in a uniquely gymnastic way and a cute multi-racial couple having very noisy and athletic sex all over their apartment) it's not meant to be shocking at all.It's actually a rather sweet story on that fine old theme of American movies: Sex is Good for You. Perhaps the classic expression of this theme during my adolescence was Kevin Bacon introducing the delights of dancing to his uptight small town schoolmates; we all knew that dancing was really a metaphor for gettin' it on. Mitchell is not inhibited by convention, and focuses his story on the tale of Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee), a sex therapist ('I prefer the term Couples Counsellor') who has a lot of sex with her husband but who has never had an orgasm. Mitchell said that he noticed that a lot of sexually explicit films were coming out of Europe recently in which the sex was pretty bleak and/or depressing (probably thinking of kind of interesting but basically dispiriting movies like 'Intimacy' and 'Nine Songs'); being an American, he wanted to tell a more cheerful story.This film has more erect penises in it than I, as a straight man, have ever seen gathered together in one movie. But the film isn't ultimately about showing you lots of sex; the story is told through the sex, demanding total commitment from the fine cast. It's a warm, funny and touching story about the value of community. As the increasingly frustrated Sofia, Lee (a popular Canadian radio personality, apparently) is both adorable and gifted with sharp comic timing. Lindsay Beamish is splendid as a glum dominatrix, and the rest of the cast is very good. Special stars for Alan Mandell as a former mayor of New York bearing a startling resemblance to one famous bachelor who had that job, and Shanti Carlson who plays one half of the Beautiful Couple that represents everything Lee's character doesn't have; one of the emotional high points of the film is a look Carlson throws Lee across the room during a particularly heated orgy. There wasn't a dry eye in the living room.Heartwarming, really. You just have to be prepared to watch a lot of men and women having sex with each other in pretty much every permutation imaginable. (Director Mitchell, a lifelong homosexual, played a 'sextra' during the orgy sequence and, as an 'act of solidarity', reportedly got intimate with a woman for the first time in his life.)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Abosolutely Fantastic!
*by D***O on 23 February 2011*

When I first saw this, I was back home in my quite little university town about to move to London, hoping I'd find a "Shortbus" here. To my dismay London (nor New York for that matter) have a "Shortbus" and this is entirely fictional. I loved this movie entirely and believe that, yes it's about sex, but it's about sex in a funny, honest and caring way. It explores all aspects of it and the characters are very likable and very human in a New York kind of way.I have yet to have the opportunity to visit New York, but I definitely believe I will try and find my little "Shortbus" when I do visit.Thoroughly recommend this movie and hope everyone tries to find their "Shortbus" after seeing it, the same way I try to find it.

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