A man's carefully constructed life unravels when his sister's arrival forces him to confront a shared, painful past.
Bleak and intimate. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
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Nothing past what an NC-17 promises: strong sex and nudity, and some violence.
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Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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