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.

Cast

Sean DeLear

Self

Ann Magnuson

Self

Scott Ewalt

Self

Steve McDonald

Self

Jeppe Beck Laursen

Self

Susan Tyrrell

Self (archive footage)

Michèle Lamy

Self

Rick Owens

Self

Ali Janka

Self

Helen Parkes

Voice Over