Rotting in the Sun

Name: Rotting in the Sun
Genre: Mystery, Comedy
Released: September 8, 2023
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Catalina Saavedra, Gerardo Sierra, Jordan Firstman, Juan Andrés Silva, Robert Keller

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MUBI | Release Date: September 8, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Catalina Saavedra, Gerardo Sierra, Jordan Firstman, Juan Andrés Silva, Robert Keller, Sebastián Silva, Vitter Leija

Movie Facts:

Streams on MUBI beginning September 15, 2023.

Summary: After encountering social media celebrity Jordan Firstman at a gay nudist beach, Sebastián Silva reluctantly agrees to direct his new project. But when Sebastián goes missing, Jordan embarks on a wild, quasi-detective journey through Mexico City.

Director: Sebastián Silva

Genre(s): Mystery, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 109 min

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The Film Stage Jose Solís

Sep 7, 2023

That Silva achieves to both criticize the overuse of online personas (particularly in the white gay world) while becoming a piece meant to be meme-d and TikTok-ed into oblivion is truly remarkable. Read full review

Justin Chang

Sep 8, 2023

As ever, Silva’s filmmaking — formally rough on the surface, carefully worked out underneath — depends on the steady upending of expectations. Social media is phony but potentially revealing. Bodies are hot and sexy until they’re gross and inconvenient. Jordan is insufferable, the worst kind of self-entitled Ugly American, but also endearing, perceptive and admirable in his tenacity. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Sep 17, 2023

More than a casual swipe at modern social trends, Rotting in the Sun exposes a kind of cruelty, alienation, and social stratification that is only as modern as the technology through which it expresses itself. Read full review

Eric Henderson

Sep 7, 2023

At once an excoriating satire of the performativity of homosexuality within a social media-addled community as well as a seemingly earnest lament for the total loss of collectivity, the film minces neither words nor bodily appendages. Read full review

Amber Wilkinson

Sep 7, 2023

While the first half of Rotting In The Sun may be overly self-indulgent, once Silva gets himself out of his system, he gives his skills and Saavedra an opportunity to shine. Read full review

David Rooney

Sep 7, 2023

Rotting in the Sun ultimately feels slight and overstretched. But with its freewheeling handheld camerawork and characters grounded in skewed reality, it whips up a compelling kind of 21st century madness as it reflects on the solipsistic nature of artists and gay men in a world consumed by shallow pleasures. Read full review

Dan Callahan

Sep 7, 2023

Silva has taken experiences from his own life for “Rotting in the Sun” in an attempt to dramatize or satirize things about the current culture that he hates, but his hate is so all-consuming yet so strangely mild that he misses most of the targets he is aiming for. Read full review

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