leplatypus For one time, there is an American movie dealing with hobos, Muslim faith so about the invisible, the forgotten ones, the unloved so i can't blame it for that. However having the courage and heart to speak about those issues and fellows should not excuse the big nonsense and the lack to talent! Sadly this movie is filled with that ! As a typical American production, the first scene is about reading for a big, lost minute the logos of all producers in black and white ! Then, when the movies really begins, it's a repeat but this time with the names repeated in the frames ! For sure, nobody will tell that it's useless, irritating, that we don't give a s..t about them and that's maybe inappropriate with the content of the movie ! Next, as a typical American production, the cinematography is just awful : again this dreadful orange / blue filtering that makes people highly tanned in daylight and smurfs by night ! Once again, nobody to tell that movies looked better years ago, that the real world is also green, red, white. Jenny has a long career and should realize that her early movies had a more vivid, colored look than this actual poor two colors ! Next, I expected the story to tell the painful, atrocious lives of hobos but instead the movie manages to tell us about the life of privileged ones ! Having Jenny and her boyfriend crash a luxurious penthouse and benefit with this cool place is just dumb ! When they are in the streets, the story is pitiful : drugs, asthma, snow storm, sexual advances, accidents… well, it's too much, not very real, adding useless drama to already dramatic lives… The directing is stupid : we can see syringes but not inter-courses ! So it's like some events are too hard to show while it's the point of making such movies ! In addition, instead of giving it without make-up, fresh, clear and true in documentary style, the choice is to embellish with useless and stupid pathos : long scenes without dialogues, characters thinking or sinking and little tearful music ! For sure, the ending credits with the dedication caption to the homeless couple in front of his building is stupid because you really wonder what he did with them to have such a poor inspiration ! And he took us for idiots as his (my) building is surely Jenny's (our) building as well!So what's left is a courageous Jenny who is faithful to her challenging choices and who stunned me with her cute, perfect fluency in french, some good dialogues about faith but at the end, you would prefer Needle Park with Pacino for a better, documented, gripping tale of urban desolation !

Shaun Michael Chase I watched this movie by chance yesterday and have not stopped thinking about it since. The ending is so powerful and just overwhelming. The music is haunting. I know some have panned it but the emotions it generates are deeply felt and the dynamic between the actors is great. I find it to be a mild commentary on homelessness and the fact that people could be living a comfortable life in a city and because of some unforeseen event find themselves without shelter.The actual and implied sex scenes are so uncomfortable because of the utter helplessness of Hannah.I hope others find this as thought-provoking as I did.

thebogofeternalstench Shelter starts off badly with mumbling dialogue, most of which I found incredibly hard to hear throughout the film. Badly cut, shaky scenes with little meaning and I found Jennifer Connelly's character really irritating. She's a heroin addict who's ditched her child and fallen into a homeless drug addicted slump because her husband died. "I used to be someone" is the cardboard sign she puts out when asking for money. The other ways she gets it is letting a morally bankrupt security guard have sex with her, even asking for oral sex for just letting her sleep in the boiler room on the first night. I found both characters unlikeable in certain ways but despite the personal history they tell one another, its understandable why they have ended up the way they have.Its a miserable film but thats what it is to be homeless and treated like you don't exist, like you are nothing.Its just that Shelter fails to draw me into the story, and it dreary beyond belief. I love dramas but there was something lacking with Shelter. You could say it was boring.I'm also sad to see Jennifer Connelly, once a voluptuous beauty reduced to a wrinkled skeleton by her own doing. she was already gaunt way before she made Shelter.

inamulhaq692 A love story of to homeless people... living on the streets of new york what the have is nothing except a past that most of us never even think can be happen to people this movie show us the world of the homeless people you think you know how homeless people live there life but you can't feel there pain how they safer every single day you don't know how its feels sleeping on the heard cold streets how its feels to begging others for food and money with weak empty hands...the movie will start by showing Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie characters and including the world of homeless people after that the both characters will fall in love by some reason in the second half they will unveil the past of both the characters and then the story will take twists and turns there will be emotions there will b love hate care under no shelter..... in the end they will learn ho much they love each other they need each other... be proud what you got and always cares for others if every one of us will care for each other then you don't have to be worry about your...sorry for the bad English..