| Octavio Is Dead! | |
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| Directed by | Sook-Yin Lee |
| Written by | Sook-Yin Lee |
| Produced by | Jennifer Weiss Simone Urdl Jamie Manning |
| Starring | Sarah Gadon Rosanna Arquette Raoul Trujillo |
| Cinematography | Daniel Grant |
| Music by | Alia O'Brien Adam Litovitz Sook-Yin Lee |
Production company | The Film Farm |
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| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Octavio Is Dead! is a 2018 Canadian supernatural drama film written and directed by Sook-Yin Lee. It premiered on June 2, 2018 at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival[1] before going into theatrical release on June 22.[2]
The film stars Sarah Gadon as Tyler, a young woman who unexpectedly inherits all of her estranged father Octavio's (Raoul Trujillo) possessions after his death. Over the objections of her domineering mother Joan (Rosanna Arquette), she goes to the apartment, only to discover that her father is still present there as a ghost who leads her through a complex exploration of her sexual and personal identity.[3] While wearing her father's clothes, she meets and becomes attracted to Apostolis (Dimitris Kitsos), a gay university student who perceives her as a man.[2]