Sequin is the screen name for the questing 16-year-old at the slowly awakening heart of
Sequin in a Blue Room, a 2019 Australian film only now reaching the UK.
Sequin is the screen name for the questing 16-year-old at the slowly awakening heart of
Sequin in a Blue Room, a 2019 Australian film only now reaching the UK. The graduation project of its New Zealand-born director and co-writer Samuel Van Grinsven, the 80-minute movie charts a mostly compelling path from multiply meaningless gay hook-ups through to something at least resembling a connection, if the image of shared popcorn at the end offers any indication of happier times ahead.
Four new films to stream this weekend Palm Springs, Sequin in a Blue Room, A Common Crime, Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another
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Directed by Max Barbakow. Starring Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, Peter Gallagher, JK Simmons. Amazon Prime, 90 min Samberg and Mlioti play attendees at a wedding in the eponymous Californian city who find themselves trapped in an apparently unbreakable time loop. Each morning they wake up hours before the nuptials. Yes, Barbakow’s inventive comedy – which achieved a record-breaking sale at Sundance – is very much in the mode of Groundhog Day, but it finds its own rhythms and its own humorous tones. This is a cooler film that works a little harder at philosophising the dilemma. Samberg is reliably dry with his quips. Milioti breaks through with an assertive comic turn.
Sequin in a Blue Room: LGBTQ drama casts an otherworldly spell
Samuel van Grinsven’s Australian coming-of-age story is never judgmental
Film Title: Sequin in a Blue Room
Director: Conor Leach, Simon Croker, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Anthony Brandon Wong
Starring: Conor Leach, Simon Croker, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Anthony Brandon Wong
Genre: Drama
Mirroring Gregg Araki’s boldly queer 1992 classic The Living End, this stylish debut feature opens with a declarative title card: “A homosexual film by Samuel van Grinsven”.
A deftly constructed coming-of-age story that plays like a thriller, Sequin in a Blue Room concerns a 16-year-old schoolboy who, using the glittery mononym of the title, sleepwalks through school lessons, oblivious to teachers, peers and his romantic admirer, Tommy (Simon Croker).
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Sequin in a Blue Room
A gay 16-year-old lad with a passion for anonymous one night stands gets in hot water when one conquest doesn t take kindly to being pushed aside
★★★ Film title: Sequin in a Blue Room Director: Samuel Van Grinsven Release date: 9 Apr Certificate: 18
The thriller potential of location-based gay dating apps like Grindr is sharply explored in this stylish first feature from Australian filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven. The app’s GPS positioning is designed for convenience, alerting horny users to their nearest potential sexual partner, but in
Sequin in a Blue Room, the number indicating the proximity in metres between you and the nearest user takes on a sinister dimension. It’s the 21st century equivalent of the calls are coming from inside the house trope or the blinking motion tracker in
SEQUIN IN A BLUE ROOM is an Australian drama in which a gay teenager's quest to uncover the identity of a mystery man from an anonymous sex party sets him on a collision course with older members of the gay community.