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Sebastian
Directed by
Mikko Mäkelä
Releasing Wed, Sep 11
1h 50m
Not Rated
Drama
7.1
72%
67%
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Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.
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Cast of Sebastian
Ruaridh Mollica
Max / Sebastian
Hiftu Quasem
Amna
Jonathan Hyde
Nicholas
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
Daniel
Dylan Brady
Joel
Pedro Minas
Oliver
Matthias Moret
Jacopo
Akbar Kurtha
Samir
Laurent Maria
Carlo
Lara Rossi
Claudia
David Nellist
Peter
Leanne Best
Dionne
Stella Gonet
Anne
Fleur Keith
Joan
Marcus Macleod
Stuart
Michael Jean-Marain
James
Jamie Melrose
Rebecca
Orlando Norman
Theo
Selina Boyack
Gloria
Apphia Campbell
Helen
James Tarpey
Ben
Julian Firth
Ian
Lizzie Francke
Alina Casaro
Adwoa Akoto
Joy
Musa Lutfi
Wesley
Tom Viaene
Alain
Ethan Moorhouse
Communications Officer
Deanna Myers
Presenter
Sebastian Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Marya E. Gates
There's some lip service about how contemporary sex workers view their jobs today, but little sense of the weight of queer history or politics in the U.K.
indieWire
Ryan Lattanzio
As a psychological portrait of an aspiring writer who gets too immersed in his own project, "Sebastian" is never as piercing as star Mollica's eyes and chiseled face. But the performance is affecting.
Autostraddle
Drew Gregory
Sex work as a topic is not enough to make a story interesting.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Mollica's accomplished, measured performance drives Mäkelä's sophomore feature, which refreshingly avoids judgment and gives Max the chance to embrace the wholeness of his queer sexuality through his experiences.
MovieWeb
Jericho Tadeo
Sebastian shows us that sex, intimacy, and pleasure, especially when it comes to queer bodies, can be empowering.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Tender, provocative and honest.
Next Best Picture
Cody Dericks
The film can't help but lean into expected tropes, and its unceasingly morose tone leads to some unfortunate thematic implications.
Paste Magazine
Jacob Oller
Sebastian plays like a rejected article from The Cut, where a tired-eyed twink rejects all self-awareness in pursuit of literary glory.
New York Times
Chris Azzopardi
The film chases its own tail, resulting in a foreseeable transformation that has the emotional resonance of an after-school special.
In Review Online
Fred Barrett
In the age of confessional songwriting and autofiction, autobiography has become the presumed default... given what's put to screen here, it's hard to imagine Mäkelä being familiar with this subject matter through anything other than second-hand accounts.
RogerEbert.com
Monica Castillo
For all its gloomy aesthetic, there is something life-affirming about the kindness of a stranger who wants to read your work and the power that comes with owning one's own words and stories.
Galveston Daily News
Dustin Chase
Director Mäkelä's film about the digital hustler is frustratingly mixed with original ideas and genre stereotypes.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
Sebastian isn't afraid to take a critical look at its protagonist and his decisions to find what makes him tick...
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
... mostly avoids shallow cliches, offering a compelling portrait of identity and acceptance.
Variety
J. Kim Murphy
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.
NPR
Bob Mondello
British character actor Jonathan Hyde is understated and dignified as the editor who gets past Max's defenses, while relative newcomer Ruaridh Mollica lets you see every chink in Max's armor just before a piece of that armor falls away.
Spectrum Culture
Miyako Pleines
Unfortunately, Sebastian can't quite seem to get past its own basic set up to deliver something exceptional, making this movie just another addition to an already overflowing genre.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
I quite liked the director's 2017 prior feature A Moment in the Reeds, a raw, deeply felt gay romance between a Finnish youth and a Syrian refugee. This English-language followup is much more polished, but feels titillating in familiar ways.
Los Angeles Times
Manuel Betancourt
With its keen, sensual eye, "Sebastian" makes its portrait of an artist as a young sex worker brim with pained authenticity about how fleeting and seemingly transactional intimacies remain rife sites of exploration for queer writers.
Everything's Interesting
Eric Langberg
Ruaridh Mollica is tremendous as Max and even more compelling as Sebastian, and it's all in the way he holds or breaks eye contact.
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