Le petite mort: Steve McQueen’s Shame (2011)
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Le petite mort: Steve McQueen’s Shame (2011)

100 American Independent Films: BFI Screen Guides
by Jason Wood
British Film Institute, 2009
Pink Flamingos
US, 1972 – 95 mins – John Waters
DOI: 10.5040/9781838710651.0071
Page Range: 170–172
Born in Baltimore, which, portrayed as a gloriously OTT hotbed of degeneracy, has continued as the setting for his films, Waters cites his middle-class, Catholic
... See moreYorgos Lanthamos' films illustrate detachment and attempted engagement with a society that at once excludes and alienates. However, the setting is unlike contemporary society, where individuals make subconscious thought explicit, and are more accepting of things that are odds with current norms.
Individuals are either fighting to escape or to be
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