“Max by day, Sebastian by night.”
Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach.
Mikko Mäkelä
James Robert Benjamin Watson
Mikko Mäkelä
Iikka Salminen
Ilari Heinilä
Ruaridh Mollica
Max
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
Michael Jean-Marain
James
David Nellist
Peter
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Brent Marchant
Authors striving for authenticity in their work often engage in extensive background research, sometimes of a firsthand nature, to get things right. However, when it comes to writer-director Mikko Mäkelä’s second (and inexplicably much-applauded) feature, I have some serious reservations about its a...
CinemaSerf
“Max” (Ruaridh Mollica) juggles a career as an aspiring journalist and novelist with charging £200 per hour selling his services as an escort to, mainly, older men. His boyish good looks and obvious inexperience at the latter makes him popular and he proves successful enough to use his varied experi...
'Sebastian' with Ruaridh Mollica, Mikko Mäkelä & James Watson | Academy Conversations
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