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    With the controversial 'Adam,' Rhys Ernst takes a deeper look at queer identity

    by Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times Jan 31, 2019 4 minutes

    PARK CITY, Utah - Appropriately premiering in Sundance's Next section, home to some of the film festival's most boundary-pushing storytelling, "Adam" is the feature directing debut for Rhys Ernst.

    Adapted by Ariel Schrag from her controversial 2014 novel of the same name, "Adam" follows the titular teenager (played by Nicholas Alexander) as he goes to spend summer 2006 with his hip older sister (Margaret Qualley), who has become a part of her city's LGBTQ community.

    Adam soon meets Gillian (Bobbi Salvor Menuez), who mistakes Adam for a trans man. He never corrects her misperception, but he doesn't exactly lie to her either. As their relationship deepens, what begins as a comedy of errors turns into something more complex and potentially shattering.

    Ernst's 2012 short

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