The Life of Sean DeLear
The Life of Sean DeLear is a vibrantly multi-faceted, buoyantly propulsive documentary portrait of this irresistibly charismatic one-off — sketched in celebratory but commendably clear-eyed style by writer-director Markus Zizenbacher. There can be very few people better qualified to do justice to this particular tale. Zizenbacher befriended DeLear — born Anthony Robertson in Simi Valley, an obscure California backwater — after the latter relocated to Vienna in the early 2010s.
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Sean DeLear
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Ann Magnuson
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Scott Ewalt
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Steve McDonald
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Jeppe Beck Laursen
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Susan Tyrrell
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Michèle Lamy
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Rick Owens
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Ali Janka
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Helen Parkes
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Richard Pursel
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Peter Tomlinson
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Pleasant Gehman
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John Sex
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Mike Watt
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Denise Brown
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Michael Bullock
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Slava Mogutin
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Jeremy O. Harris
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Juliana Huxtable
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