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The Lost Coast

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Description:

The second feature from writer/director Gabriel Fleming, The Lost Coastis a haunting story of old high school flames reigniting years later. The film, in which a group of friends find themselves in a series of surreal circumstances as they spend a night crisscrossing San Francisco in search of drugs, unfolds like a queer take on Martin Scorsese's After Hours.

When Jasper makes plans to meet up with Mark and Lily, he's a little unsure of what to expect. Way back when, Mark and Lily dated. And Jasper and Mark used to fool around. Now Mark and Lily are just roommates and Mark is out of the closet, while Jasper has a long-distance fianc'e living overseas. As the three friends prepare for a wild night of Halloween partying in San Francisco's Castro district, their complicated past intrudes on the evening and all three are overcome by vivid memories of a camping trip to northern California's Lost Coast. Tensions mount, and Mark and Jasper are forced to reckon with the confusing sexual feelings between them, the pain they once caused each other, and the hurt they may cause again.

Ian Scott McGregor (as Jasper) and Lucas Alifano (as Mark) give beautifully understated performances, seething with repressed sexual energy and complicated emotions. Hot wilderness make-out scenes, richly coloured and dream-like, punctuate the more restrained (but barely so) present-day sequences. With nuance and 20/20 hindsight, The Lost Coast brings us back to those passionate first sexual experiences that shape our complicated identities.

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