The Controversial ‘Blue Film,’ Rejected by Mainstream Film Festivals, Is Picked Up by Obscured Releasing

Elliot Tuttle's film, billed by IndieWire as one of the most daring American films of recent vintage, will be released in May ...
Yahoo

‘Blue Film’ Review: A Disturbing Look at Pedophilia and Gay Shame Is Independent Cinema at Its Most Provocative

Few contemporary films about unresolved childhood abuse — which is always unresolved, in the end, anyway — cut as narrowly close to the bone as Elliot Tuttle’s two-hander masked as provocation, “Blue ...
Variety

Why ‘Blue Film,’ a Drama About a Camboy and a Pedophile, Was Too Controversial for Major Festivals: ‘The Powers That Be Were Scared’

Elliot Tuttle knew that “Blue Film,” the fictional story of a camboy who reconnects with a former high school teacher who was fired for sexually assaulting a student, was going to be divisive. After ...
Variety

‘Blue Film’ Review: A Swaggering Camboy Is Caught Off-Guard In a Provocative Chamber Piece

Strong performances by Reed Birney and Kieron Moore sell a triggering premise in director Elliot Tuttle's examination of repression, abuse and shame. Premiering in the main competition at the ...
IndieWire

‘Blue Film’ Review: A Disturbing Look at Pedophilia and Gay Shame Is Independent Cinema at Its Most Provocative

NewFest: Elliot Tuttle pits an adult camboy against the middle-school teacher who once desired him in a searing movie that deserves your attention, even as most audiences will want to look away. Few ...