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 ...

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 ...

Elliot Tuttle's debut feature Blue Film tells the story of a camboy and a disgraced former teacher that challenges hubris, ...

Anyone approaching “Blue Film” hoping to be titillated, per the pornographic implication of the title, is likely to be disappointed. “Blue” denotes sex, certainly, and that’s forever on the minds of ...

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Though it might sound like five minutes of a Todd Solondz movie stretched to nearly 20 times that, Elliott Tuttle’s feature debut certainly goes the distance, even if its uncompromising nature will be ...

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 ...

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 ...