Wonderfully written, Steve McQueen’s follow up from his excellent Hunger is another superb outing. Fassbender and Mulligan are nothing short of brilliant. Fassbender plays Brandon, who is addicted to meaningless sex and struggles when circumstance force him to connect both emotionally and sexually. The film is delicately balanced by Sissy, his sister, played by Mulligan who longs for emotional connection and is given to suicidal tendencies. McQueen crafts his characters slowly and clinically, working in a typically cold palette. Shame is excellent and I can’t wait for McQueen next film Twelve Years a Slave.