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The British director Steve McQueen is an eccentric guy whose mind leads him to unusual places, and the Irish actor Michael Fassbender is a true-believer who seems willing to follow him wherever it goes: for their last collaboration, Hunger (2008), Fassbender dropped nearly 40 pounds to play a hunger striker, and for this one, an NC-17 drama about a sex addict, he spends much of the film fully naked and engaged in a wide variety of sexual activities. During a recent interview, McQueen told me that he and Abi Morgan penned the script after discovering how widely prevalent sex addiction is -- he likened it to AIDS in the eighties, in the sense that it is a real affliction that is all around us but that few of us are aware of or choose to acknowledge -- with the goal of enlightening others about it, as well. The film, which was shot over just 25 days in New York on a budget of only $5.5 million, chronicles the lives of and relationship between Brandon (Fassbender), a single, handsome, successful 30-something New Yorker who is secretly a sex addict, and Sissy (Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan), his emotionally-unstable younger sister who moves in with him when she has nowhere else to go. Brandon, we soon learn, constantly pursues orgasms from any and every available source -- magazines, websites, and online chatrooms; women and men; coworkers, strangers, prostitutes, and maybe, it is hinted, even his sister -- but seems to derive no pleasure from them at all. Instead, like the Orthodox man at the end of Steven Soderbergh&#39;s The Girlfriend Experience (2009) who orgasms from merely being touched, he is just desperately seeking a connection, but, tragically, can&#39;t stop himself from pushing away anyone who offers him one. The film&#39;s ending is haunting. hermes birkin bag http://www.leonanaess.org/hermesoutlet/