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Rotting in the Sun Reviews

Jan 7, 2025

Beautifully made and such a great film!!! Definitely need more movies like this!!!

Apr 25, 2024

This movie is of a badness almost not to be believed. The dialogue seems to have been mostly improvised.

Feb 4, 2024

Fresh, sarcastic, sexy, I really loved watching this movie, very cool script.

Jan 21, 2024

Quirky, unusual doesn't take itself too seriously.

Dec 29, 2023

Takes some time to find its footing but ultimately a tense but funny ride when it keeps going towards the secondary half. 3/5

Dec 4, 2023

Actually, I liked it, but after watching the interview with the director, I realized it wasn't that deep.

Oct 19, 2023

More d!cks/ft^2 than any movie ever. I found the regular playing on the awkwardness of translation and class interesting. A murder mystery slow burner that drags on a bit too long and never comes to a satisfyingly conclusion.

Oct 10, 2023

Found this movie to be brilliant! Great mash up between the racy and mundane. Characters were unique, authentic, quirky, cheeky, but with glimpses of depth, including, perhaps especially, Chima the dog. Got super nervous about that characters fate adding an underlying extra layer of tension. Though the movie has a line through it and some critics prefer one side to the other, I loved both sides of the line and especially the ending. The film-makers played themselves as the main characters, balls to the wall!

Sep 25, 2023

O diretor Sebastian Silva está passando por uma crise existencial, pensando em suicídio. Até que decide passar o fim de semana em uma praia nudista gay. Lá ele conhece o digital Influencer Jordan Firstman que o convida para trabalhar em um projeto com ele, A princípio, Sebastian não quer, mas acaba levando a aceitar. Marca um encontro com Jordan em seu apartamento porém o inesperado pode acontecer. Muitos dos personagens do filme são feitos pelos próprios, como é o caso de Sebastian e Jordan. O filme faz um mix entre comédia e mistério a la Agatha Christie, o que desperta um certo interesse, já que o espectador sabe o que aconteceu e se diverte com as confusões com um personagem que tenta se proteger. O estranho é uma certa falta de preocupação dos personagens com o que pode ter acontecido, menos Jordan que está realmente interessado em descobrir o que aconteceu. Os personagens não despertam empatia, principalmente Sebastian. Jordan começa muito over, mas os acontecimentos acabam levando a uma reflexão. Verô, a empregada do apartamento de Sebastian, torna-se a personagem mais interessante. Sinto que esse filme quase chegou lá, talvez com menos maneirismos, poderia ser interessante para o público em geral. Principalmente pela segunda parte dele.

Sep 20, 2023

Given the regular drug-taking, frequent male nudity, and eruptions of gay sex, it's perhaps best avoided by the faint-hearted. For anyone else, it's an invigorating hybrid of screwball comedy and suspected murder mystery with a side order of social commentary, slightly let down by an unremarkable ending. (For my money the unsung star is the frumpy and put upon Mexican housekeeper desperate not to lose the rubbish job she commutes to for hours daily. Her facial expressions provide an expressive running commentary on the action.)

Sep 17, 2023

Los clichés de la vida y personajes de la roma-condesa bien articulados, en un sentido muy diferente al que nos ofrecen las series y películas del catálogo comercial…

Sep 16, 2023

Absolutely brilliant. All you homophobic stupid people should carry a couch.

Sep 15, 2023

I was not expecting anything like what eventually I watched. The way you can see that at the end of the story very few people would really care if you are dead.

Sep 14, 2023

When an overwrought, angst-ridden, drug addicted filmmaker (Sebastián Silva playing a fictional version of himself) unexpectedly meets a wacky, unhinged comedian/social media influencer (Jordan Firstman playing a fictional version of himself) at a gay Mexican beach resort, the troubled director does all he can to distance himself from his new acquaintance when he becomes interminably annoying, especially in his incessant, unfocused pitches for collaborating on a new movie project. But, when the financially strapped filmmaker returns to his home in Mexico City, he reluctantly relents on the comic's offer when all his other production proposals are turned down by would-be backers. He thus invites his new writing partner to come stay with him while they hammer out the script, but, upon his collaborator's arrival, he finds the director has mysteriously disappeared. What ensues is a humorous gay comedy-mystery in which clues about the disappearance slowly emerge. At the same time, however, the story also delves into some surprisingly mature and insightful themes, developments very much in contrast to the film's screwball narrative and its somewhat manic opening act. Writer-director Silva's latest thus presents viewers with an intriguing combination of plot elements that one might think shouldn't belong in the same picture but that work surprisingly well together. While it's true that the ending seems somewhat abrupt and that some segments run on a little too long (particularly in the first half-hour), with a few others that could have been omitted entirely, the majority of the material nevertheless holds together well, making for an entertaining, if somewhat offbeat, time at the movies. Sensitive viewers are strongly cautioned, however, that the film features numerous scenes with explicit depictions of gay male sexuality, so those who are easily given to offense may wish to pass on this unrated release. Those considerations aside, though, this is a film that's more than it might superficially seem, particularly the further one gets into the story. It's quite an eye-opening ride into a world that many may be unfamiliar with, but it's also one that simultaneously makes us laugh and makes us think – a rare combination to be found in the same picture, to be sure.

Sep 7, 2023

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