Shame

…released his second commercial movie, Shame, in 2011. Its somewhat transgressive subject was the story of a man’s sex addiction. Again McQueen used Fassbender as his lead actor. In 2013 McQueen’s film 12 Years a Slave was released. It starred Chiwetel Ejiofor in the role of Solomon Northup, who wrote…

…with Hunger (2008) and made Shame (2011), the highly acclaimed 12 Years a Slave (2013), and Widows (2018). Derek Jarman’s films dealt with the subject of male homosexuality; his Blue (1993) was a remarkable work showing only a monochrome blue screen while on the sound track he discussed the failure…

…Fassbender reteamed with McQueen on Shame, a drama about sexual addiction. For his haunting performance of a man self-destructing, he won the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival. His other credits that year include Jane Eyre, a film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, and X-Men: First Class,…

…Fassbender) in Steve McQueen’s grim Shame.