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‘Rotting in the Sun’ Review: Sebastián Silva Gets Sexually Explicit About the Trouble with Being Gay
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 SundanceFilm Festival. MUBI releases the film in theaters on Friday, September 8.
Sebastián Silva has suicide on the brain in “Rotting in the Sun,” his eighth directorial feature and one in which he also plays himself. Sebastián is living in Mexico Town, running out of money, addicted to ketamine, and bereft of creative ideas. But he faces a new, potentially soul-eroding opportunity when flippant gay internet persona and content creator Jordan Firstman enters the frame. Firstman also plays himself in a performance that interrogates his image as a contemporary gay icon while also mocking it — in ways self-aware and also not — in this raunchy, sexually explicit lambasting of queer male life whose target audience will both revile and revere this clip.
“Rotting in the Sun” begins with Sebastián sitting at a public fountain in the Plaza Rio de Janeiro, googling “how to kill yourself in Mexico.” His pup, Chima, is eati
James Franco Defends Explicit Gay Show Banned in Australia: "Sex Is Such a Big Part of Our Lives"
James Franco is up in arms over a movie ban Down Under.
The actor has come out in support of the film I Want Your Love after the gay drama was barred by the Australian Classification Board from being screened at several movie festivals in the country due to its explicit content.
The clip, about a gay man's last hurrah in San Francisco the night before he moves help to the Midwest, was directed by Travis Mathews, with whom Franco collaborated on their Sundance project, Interior. Leather Bar.I Long for Your Lovereportedly includes a six-minute scene in which two actors engage in unsimulated sex.
Franco defended Mathews in a video posted on YouTube Monday.
"This is such a disappointment to me and just seems really silly," the Oz the Great and Powerful star says, giving props to the director's vision and how it spurred their eventual collaboration.
"The reason that I approached Travis to make a film that eventually was called Interior. Leather Bar. was because of the work he did on I Want Your Love.
When LGBT people ask for more movies featuring LGBT people, they’re invariably answered with a flat capitalist explanation: LGBT films don’t make money. This is invariably presented as an insurmountable truth. But is it?
Independent scholar Ellie Lockhart wasn’t so sure. Lockhart has a PhD in Communications studies but has recently been looking to move into a career in data science. She decided to put all of those skills together to see if she could determine whether, and which kinds, of LGBT films do well at the box office. Her ongoing project is to comb IMDB for box office data for LGBT films, compare them to films without LGBT visibility, and see whether filmgoers will or will not go to these movies.
Lockhart’s broader goal is to highlight the importance of LGBT representation not just in niche indie drama, but in big-budget franchise films, which are the movies that dominate pop culture attention and discourse. “I’m not a My Dinner with Andre film buff, I’m a No State for Old Men film buff,” Lockhart told me by email. “If I can prove the conventional gut wisdom wrong, maybe someone in the industry will see
Contemporary French Queer Cinema: Explicit Sex and the Politics of Normalization
Abstract
This thesis examines how recent French queer films may mirror, interrogate and engage with sexual politics in France. The key political changes include the 1999 Pacte Civil de Solidarité legislation and the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2013. The thesis focuses on French queer films which are sexually explicit, including simulated and unsimulated sex acts. Using Michael Warner’s The Trouble with Normal and MichelFoucault’s conceptions of homosexuality, the thesis suggests that the sexual politics in France ostensibly normalize and desexualize same-sex attracted and lesbian modes of desire. This thesis ultimately argues that the explicit sex scenes in the films discussed are not gratuitous. Rather they are integral to the director’s engagement with contemporaryFrench sexual politics.French queer cinema, as such, remains a key critical lens through which to analyze the global shift towards the legalization of male lover marriage and the unpredictable social, sexual, and political implications of normalization.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Joanna K., "Contemporary French Lgbtq+ Cinema: Explici