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).