A very hard film to digest, at least for me. It's not the explicit footages of sex, it's the frequent use of them. Explicit sexuality will still be, for many people, a taboo for years to come. I don't agree with that; it's fine, really. A film in which the central topic is sexuality may very well make use of sexual audiovisual motifs; it must, even. Shortbus doesn't shock one with its carnal images as much as it shocks one with the internal conflicts, though. The characters are flawed, or better yet, carry out flawed sexual lives in deep frustration, and there are beautiful moments of joy and freedom for each one of them in their own universe of dilemmas. The problem here is absolutely personal. My sensorial apparatus is not always ready for such a strong load of instinctual narrative.
Director: John Cameron Mitchell.
Score
Cinematography: 8.0
Acting: 9.0
Editing (a confusing one, by the way): 6.5
Sound (very polluted passages quite often): 6.0
Text: 8.0
Average Score: 7.5
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