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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Potato Dreams of America Review: Queer Coming-of-Age Tale Is a Film of Two Very Different Halves Potato Dreams of America Review: Queer Coming-of-Age Tale Is a Film of Two Very Different Halves
Russian-American director Wes Hurley expands his SXSW-winning short into an autobiographical feature that mixes structural surprises with more hackneyed conventions.
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Director: Wes Hurley
With: Marya Sea Kaminksi, Tyler Bocock, Sera Barbieri, Hersh Powers, Dan Lauria, Lea DeLaria, Jonathan Bennett, Sophia Mitri Schloss.
Running time: Running time: 96 MIN.
Courtesy of SXSW
The question of how to convey characters speaking a language other than English in a fully English-language production is one that many a director of an exotically-set Hollywood production or lumpy Europudding has faced over the years. For those who simply cannot resort to subtitles, the artifice of heavily accented English dialogue is a stilted standby. “Potato Dream
Veneno
Veneno, 2020, still from a TV show on HBO Max. Season 1, episode 4. Cristina “La Veneno” Ortiz Rodríguez (Daniela Santiago).
THE FOURTH EPISODE of HBO Max’s Spanish-language biopic
Veneno (2020) etymologizes its title, the national pet name of Spain’s late trans icon Cristina “La Veneno” Ortiz Rodríguez. In the limited series’ most memorable sequence, Cristina (an intoxicating Daniela Santiago) descends on Parque del Oeste, the center of trans sex work in 1990s Madrid, to mark her territory among peers and bullies. Dressed in a slinky harem ensemble complete with an ass-grazing human-hair wig and brand-new Jessica Rabbit breasts Cristina confronts her rival, Fanny (Lara Martorell). Fanny shrieks that “a boob job doesn’t change shit! You’re still a faggot,” so Cristina tackles her, strangles her, and tears one of Fanny’s nipples clean off between her teeth! Lightning streaks, rain gushes; a gang of Nazis arrives to terrorize the working girls; Cr
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