Film: Shame is compulsive viewing

Reviewed this Week: Shame directed by Steve McQueen. Rating: 4/5. War Horse directed by Steven Spielberg. Rating: 3/5.

Michael Fassbender in Shame.
Michael Fassbender in Shame.

Reviewed: Shame

**Directed by Steve McQueen**

**Selected cinemas, cert 18**

**Rating:** 4/5

Director Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender follow their 2008 breakthrough Hunger with **Shame**, another disturbing and hypnotic film built around an abstract noun that centres on the extremes to which the human mind and body can be pushed.

His name is Brandon and he's a sex addict. That's about all you need to know about Fassbender's character, whose obsession ...