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The lines of seduction, revenge and power are blurred in this tense and stylish thriller about desire and self-loathing, starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay.
Overview
Jules’ (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) life and career as a drag queen is destroyed by a homophobic attack. But after a chance encounter with his attacker, the deeply closeted Preston (George MacKay), he is presented with the opportunity to exact revenge. Unrecognisable out of his wig and make-up, Jules infiltrates Preston’s life and in doing so discovers the lines of seduction, revenge and power become blurred.
Directors Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman adapt their eponymous, Bafta-nominated short (which also played BFI London Film Festival 2021) for this provocative, intense and stylish thriller, boasting a pair of superb performances from its two leads.
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