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Fassbender and Mulligan star in McQueen’s second, once again stunning and very physical feature film. Their past slowly unravels, with disastrou The bare prison cell of IRA man Bobby Sands inHungerhas been exchanged in Steve McQueen’s second featurefor the equally suffocating space in the head of New Yorker Brandon Sullivan, again a striking role by Michael Fassbender. Sullivan’s existence revolves around sex: with whores, on the phone, with colleagues or women he picks up in the clubs of a sterile blue Manhattan, Sullivan’s personal laboratory. That daily routine of emotionless sex is disrupted when Sullivan’s younger sister Sissy moves in with him. The shadows of a past that injured both of them slowly intrude. But where Sissy directs her destructive tendencies within and lets the world overwhelm her, Sullivan keeps them at a distance.