Movie Review: Sequin in a Blue Room
The tale of a young gay teen s obsession with sex takes a dark turn in Samuel Van Grinsven s debut feature
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Sequin in a Blue Room‘s opening credits fill the screen, director Samuel Van Grinsven decides to make one thing very, very clear: the movie you’re about to watch is not just any film, but “a homosexual film.” Set in an unspecified Australian metropolis, the movie, which won the Audience Award for Best Feature at the Sydney Film Festival, is
abundantly homosexual as it tells the story of a young gay high schooler addicted to anonymous gay sex.
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).