Over the next two and a half weeks the fantastic CINECITY film festival returns to Brighton for its ninth edition, bringing with it a host of premières, previews, exhibitions and installations. It all kicks off tomorrow night at the Duke Of Yorks cinema (the UK’s oldest purpose-built cinema, no less) with an advanced screening of Steve McQueen’s hotly-anticipated Shame.
As we mentioned last month, the film reunites former Turner Prize-winner McQueen with the dashing Michael Fassbinder, who scored a breakthrough performance as Irish Republican hunger striker Bobby Sands in McQueen’s debut feature, Hunger. Shame has already garnered considerable critical acclaim for its intense depiction of sexual compulsion, need and desire, with a good deal of praise directed at the central performances of Fassbinder and fellow A-Lister Carey Mulligan.
OnlyForKoolKids (@OnlyForKoolKids) will be tweeting live coverage from CINECITY’s opening night from 6pm tomorrow, with reaction and a full review of Shame, which doesn’t hit UK screens until January 13, following shortly after the film. In the meantime, here’s the trailer for Shame again to whet your appetite…
