Rotting in the Sun review – self-mocking whodunnit with a jawdropping twist

An obnoxious influencer pitches a TV project to an entitled director in this deeply unflattering portrait of privilege that quickly becomes a crime storySebastián Silva’s slippery black comedy begins something like a cross between Curb Your Enthusiasm and Girls.

Silva plays a version of himself, a film director called Sebastián Silva living in Mexico City; he’s meant to be working, but instead he idles days away on the sofa in his flat morosely snorting ketamine, Googling his own name and researching suicide methods.

It’s a deeply unflattering portrait of entitled privilege from Silva and co-writer Pedro Peirano.

Sebastián is mean to his dog and unforgivably rude to his housekeeper Vero.

Keep an eye on Vero, she will be important later.To escape his funk, Sebastián takes a trip to the coast – staying at a gay partying spot heaving with hot naked men.

Silva packs in more…

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