Review: 'Rotting in the Sun' is the horny, thorny Instagay meta-mystery you've been waiting for
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Sep 13, 2023
3 minutes
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At first glance, the protagonist of the enjoyable sex-and-death-and-Instagram dark comedy "Rotting in the Sun" would appear to be its director: the 44-year-old Chilean-born filmmaker Sebastián Silva ("Nasty Baby," "Crystal Fairy"), here playing a severely depressed version of himself. He enters the movie in an existential funk, his head full of suicidal thoughts and his sad-eyed, strikingly handsome face buried in a copy of E.M. Cioran's "The Trouble With Being Born." Soon he flees his Mexico City apartment for a gay nude-beach paradise, but Sebastián already seems dead to life's pleasures, whether
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