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Sequin in a Blue Room

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Australia · 2019
1h 20m
Director Samuel Van Grinsven
Starring Anthony Brendan Wong, Conor Leach, Ed Wightman, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor
Genre Drama

High-schooler Sequin is part of the always logged-on, but never-engaged, hook-up generation. He ghosts ex-partners and remains emotionally unavailable. But after a chance encounter at an anonymous sex party, Sequin becomes fixated on an alluring stranger, and hunts through the world of a hook-up app to track down the mystery man.

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Variety by Peter Debruge

Van Grinsven is conscious of consequences, but more interested in exploring the newfound freedoms that technology offers queer self-discovery.

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RogerEbert.com by Peter Sobczynski

Those who are willing to give it a chance—and that would include thoughtful teenagers who would respond to a film that approaches their lives in a serious and reasonably non-judgmental manner—are likely to find it as fascinating as I did.

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The Guardian by Phuong Le

That Sequin in a Blue Room was director Samuel van Grinsven’s graduate project is astonishing considering the film’s inspired visual panache, and the eroticism of the explicit depictions of casual sex. Leach’s performance in his first film acting credit is equally impressive; the way in which Sequin’s swagger gradually drains from his face to expose an inner vulnerability is incredibly moving.

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The Observer (UK) by Wendy Ide

This feature debut from the Sydney-based writer and director Samuel Van Grinsven may tackle familiar material – gay coming-of-age stories are hardly uncommon – but it does so with a lustre and style that marks Van Grinsven out as a name to watch. Perhaps even more notable is Leach, a silky, feline presence who owns every moment that he’s on screen.

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