"There is lotsa lotsa lotsa sex in Shortbus, and a lot of it is real...But just when the excess and the home-movie artlessness starts to grate, along comes a surprising and verifiably human interchange...At a time when American moviegoers have become numb to the rampant, mainstream pornography of violence, it's refreshing to see a non-mainstream movie that wears its heart and lust on its sleeve, and has anything but violence on its mind." (Chicago Tribune) "Yo La Tengo girds the film with a dreamy loveliness that sends you out on a cloud, and Mitchell builds to a climax (you should pardon the expression) that hardwires the whole thing together. Above all, he reclaims sex -- filming it, watching it, doing it -- as something both deeply funny and transcendently human: a revolving door that leads to the senses and to the heart. Shortbus is a very dirty movie that can make you feel oddly clean." (Boston Globe) More at shortbusthemovie.com
2006, color, 1 hour 41 minutes, USA