Ever since his breakout with 2015’s Tangerine, Sean Baker has earned accolades for his films exploring marginalized communities. In 2017 he debuted The Florida Project during the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes, earning numerous accolades (it was my top movie of the year) and catapulting Baker as a must-see filmmaker. And now he has returned to Cannes with Red Rocket, which is his third straight movie that seeks to tell normal stories about people in the sex industry.
The first clip (via ThePlaylist) from Red Rocket takes us to Texas, where a former pornstar has returned home from L.A., even though nobody really wants him back. Simon Rex stars as the suggestively named Mikey Saber, joined by co-stars Bree Elizabeth Elrod, Suzanna Son, and Ethan Darbone.
Joining Baker is longtime co-writer Chris Bergoch, who has been working with him since Starlet in 2012, and producer/actor Shih-Ching Tsou who began working with Baker on 2004’s Take Out.
A24 acquired Red Rocket earlier this year and will presumably release it during the awards season.
