But lest you think Rotting in the Sun a navel-gazing exercise, the pitch-black comedy takes some startling detours. While on the Mexican beach, Sebastián encounters Jordan Firstman, the influencer ...

The aptly titled “Rotting in the Sun” is a misanthropic comedy-mystery that pits writer-director-actor Sebastián Silva against Instagram influencer–comedian Jordan Firstman, both of whom are playing ...

In the film, frustrated Ketamine-addled artist Sebastian Silva crosses paths with ingratiating comedian-influencer Jordan Firstman on a nude beach in Mexico. When Firstman goes to visit him in Mexico ...

Sebastián Silva’s “Rotting in the Sun” poked and prodded the 2023 Sundance Film Festival with its graphic, unsimulated gay sex scenes and full-frontal male nudity. But this dark existential ...

The writer and social media star was sick of himself, so he signed up for Sebastian Silva’s hyperrealist ‘Rotting In the Sun,’ where his fame was a punch line. By Seija Rankin Senior Editor The ...

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 ( ...

“Dicks are blinding,” Sebastián Silva explained during a recent Zoom regarding his movie Rotting in the Sun. He should know—there are a lot of them in the film (over 30 by some counts). The dicks, ...

“Rotting in the Sun” carries all the familiar themes of writer-director Sebastián Silva’s work — class tensions, sexual intrigue, disarming comedy with unsettling punchlines — but the movie’s genesis ...

In 2020 the writer, actor, and comedian Jordan Firstman got famous on Instagram doing impressions of wonderfully mundane things. He was "banana bread's publicist" and "the right pipe when water goes ...

The Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Silva surveyed a Brooklyn gay bar the other night and found it wanting. It was too cold, too empty, and he was starving. He pitched a companion, the writer and actor ...