ROTTING IN THE SUN
Tuesday, Sept 10 at 6:00 PM
The Cinematheque
Director: Sebastián Silva
US/Mexico | 2023 | English & Spanish with subtitles | 109 min | Comedy/Thriller
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While unwinding at a Mexican gay beach town, depressed director Sebastián Silva meets gregarious Instagram influencer Jordan Firstman (both playing versions of themselves), and Sebastián reluctantly agrees to collaborate on an upcoming project. But when Jordan arrives back in Mexico City, Sebastián is nowhere to be found. Jordan dances, sleeps and snorts his way through the city as he embarks on a quasi-detective journey to get to the bottom of Sebastián’s disappearance.
En un viaje de relajo a un pueblo costero gay en México, el deprimido director Sebastián Silva conoce al gregario influencer de Instagram Jordan Firstman (ambos se interpretan a sí mismos), y Sebastián es convencido a regañadientes de colaborar con él en un proyecto futuro. Pero cuando Jordan regresa a Ciudad de México, le es imposible ubicar a Sebastián, así que el influencer se embarca en una aventura impredecible, una salvaje historia digna de un detective.
“With its tricky tone and its wildly ambitious themes, it’s not surprising to find Silva’s outrageous, salacious film stumbling as it brings its many threads into focus. Like Sebastián’s art and his journal in the film, “Rotting in the Sun” remains a patchwork of quotes and ideas and provocations hastily if hilariously stitched together.”
-Manuel Betancourt, Variety
Grand Jury Award – Outstanding Screenwriting in a North American Narrative Feature, Outfest: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2023
SEBASTIÁN SILVA
Sebastián Silva was born on 9 April 1979 in Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile. He is a writer and director, known for Tyrel (2018), The Maid (2009) and Gatos viejos (2010).
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