Sebastian

Name: Sebastian
Genre: Drama
Released: August 2, 2024
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 64
Cast: David Nellist, Dylan Brady, Fleur Keith, Hiftu Quasem, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: August 2, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: David Nellist, Dylan Brady, Fleur Keith, Hiftu Quasem, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Jonathan Hyde, Lara Rossi, Leanne Best, Pedro Minas, Ruaridh Mollica

Summary: Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is a 25-year-old aspiring novelist, living in London and paying his dues working at a literary magazine. Frustrated by his own ambitions and the pressures to succeed, Max begins moonlighting as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, secretly meeting men via an escorting platform and using his experiences to fuelMax (Ruaridh Mollica) is a 25-year-old aspiring novelist, living in London and paying his dues working at a literary magazine. Frustrated by his own ambitions and the pressures to succeed, Max begins moonlighting as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, secretly meeting men via an escorting platform and using his experiences to fuel his stories. What begins as a few furtive meetings soon becomes a hidden nocturnal life, and the debut novel that he has been longing to write finally seems within reach. Finding himself more comfortable as Sebastian than expected, yet determined to keep his exploits a secret, Max increasingly struggles to remain in control of a delicately balanced double-life. As he confronts conflicting feelings of ecstasy, shame, and exhilarating liberation, Max has to reckon with whether Sebastian is merely a writer’s tool to achieve first-hand authenticity – or whether something more is at stake.… Expand

Director: Mikko Makela

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 110 min

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Feb 13, 2026

Sebastian grabs ahold of your attention and pulls it down to the floor. Read full review

Screen Rant Graeme Guttmann

Feb 13, 2026

A piercing, explicit, and oftentimes sexy study of one 25-year-old's search for identity in a world that has discouraged him from accepting all of himself unabashedly. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Feb 13, 2026

The fearless lead performance from Ruraridh Mollica really gets under the skin of the complex central figure and should elevate him to rising star status. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Aug 2, 2024

Written and directed by Mikko Mäkelä, “Sebastian” plays like a cautionary tale about toxic ambition. Read full review

The Guardian Phil Hoad

Apr 2, 2025

Mäkelä is too in bed with his protagonist’s objectives to develop the kind of perspective that might yield richer insights into the life/art trade-off. Read full review

J. Kim Murphy

Aug 2, 2024

Despite the film’s confident naturalism, it seems less intimate as it goes on, with Max somehow growing more distant and generic as he becomes more comfortable in his own skin. Read full review

Chris Azzopardi

Aug 1, 2024

While sex drives Sebastian, the movie is stuck in foreplay mode. Read full review

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