Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality.
Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally-challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus, a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality.
In a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, Shortbus tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart.
Special Agent Matti
Phwaorgh! Shortbus is hot, steamy and sexy. The "actual sexual activity" might lead you to believe that it's porn (and not art) but you'd be wrong: sex is the whole reason for the story. Of course, that doesn't mean that there's a great deal of story but John Cameron Mitchell comes close. No pun intended.
This flick is a voyeur's delight with solo action, pairs, threesomes, orgies, public sex, domination, submission, toys, whips, leather, PVC and compassion. And a mythic quest for the female orgasm.
Bonus points for the cool model of New York.
The drama, erotic movie Shortbus is directed by John Cameron Mitchell and stars Raphael Barker, Lindsay Beamish, Jay Brannan.
R 18+ (High level sex scenes, actual sexual activity)
98 minutes (1:38 hours)
Film: 9 November 2006
