Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Writer/director Samuel Van Grinsven heaped this powerful, haunting erotic drama on us back in 2019 when it played the festival circuit.
Now, two years later, we get to share it with you, dear reader.Sequin in a Blue Room follows Sequin (Conor Leach), a 16-year-old beginning to explore his sexuality on dating apps.
Unlike most of us, Sequin begins to venture into sex parties at age 16, discovering his sexual power through anonymous hook-ups, mostly with older men.
A chance meeting at a party leads Sequin on an obsessive search to find a man with whom he shares an unexpected, emotional connection.