23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

Rotting in the Sun

Sebastián Silva

United States / Mexico

2023, 111'

A totally sarcastic movie that is not without its incredibly moving moments. Told in a manner reminiscent of a mockumentary, without actually being one, Rotting in the Sun starts by being about a director with suicidal ideations, a tendency to take ketamine and an encounter that can be both amorous and careerist with Instagram personality Jordan Firstman. But everything takes a turn and a sofa is to blame.

A paradise beach, ketamine and poppers galore, sex to boot… and yet Sebastián Silva is bored to death. Played by the director himself, in a metafictional version, the protagonist of this film is a potentially suicidal young filmmaker, fed on an explosive diet of unbridled ambition, viral videos and Emil Cioran quotes. Together with his housekeeper and a social media celebrity, Sebastián will experience a series of deceptions and misunderstandings, in a film that gets progressively more anxious. Self-aware and highly critical of a certain artistic class that is too cynical and self-absorbed for its own good, Rotting in the Sun is a subversive queer acid comedy that recovers the adventurous energy of the Chilean director’s early films, such as the hallucinatory Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus. (Bruno Pereira)

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INFO

PREMIERE TYPE

National

ORIGINAL TITLE

Rotting in the Sun

LANGUAGE

English / Spanish

SCRIPT

Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Silva

CAST

Juan Andrés Silva, Catalina Saavedra, Jordan Firstman, Sebastián Silva, Gerardo Sierra, Mateo Riestra

PHOTOGRAPHY

Gabriel Díaz

EDITING

Gabriel Díaz, Sofía Subercaseaux, Santiago Cendejas

PRODUCER

Jacob Wasserman

PRODUCTION

Hidden Content, Icki Eneo Arlo, Spacemaker Productions

SALES

Jacob Wasserman ([email protected])

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