Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers — compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.
Thure Lindhardt Zachary Booth Julianne Nicholson Souléymane Sy Savané Justin Reinsilber Ed Vassallo Paprika Steen Marilyn Neimark Sebastian La Cause Sarah Hess Roberta Kirshbaum Jamie Petrone Maria Dizzia Stella Schnabel Jodie Markell James Bidgood John Michael Cox Jr. Henry Arango Agosto Machado Miguel Flatow Calder Kusmierski Singer Shane Stackpole Christopher Lenk Todd Verow
为你流的泪, Laisse la lumière, Deixa as Luzes Acesas, Deixe a Luz Acesa, Не гаси светлината, Ostavi upaljena svjetla, Κράτα ένα φως αναμμένο, Zostań ze mną, Остави упаљена светла, 為你流的淚, Işıkları Açık Bırak, Ánh đèn thắp sáng, 点亮灯光, Не выключай свет, Keep The Lights On, Поддържай светлините, 라잇 온 미
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Based on an autobiographical story and inspired by films such as Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right, Bill Sherwood's Goodbye Glances, and Jacques Nolot's Before I Forget, Keep The Lights On takes us deep into the emotional journey of two men's decade-long relationship, showing love in all its manifestations.
The story of an impossible couple relationship, prolonged for years, that of the film director Erik Rothman and the lawyer of a publishing house Paul Lucy, in which Paul, traumatized since he was young by that famous family and social environment, which always showed and presented him as something abject and intolerable, at least, problematic, the love between two people of the same sex, Paul will take to its maximum…
they say love is more than just commitment. but at the end of the day, when the only person who made you feel loved—in a world that has desperately deprived it from you—leaves the door, isn't it the only thing that matters?
gay filmmakers with their little tote bags is something so universal (im a gay filmmaker with a tote bag)
oh my god ira sachs. happy pride month.
Relatively beautiful, yet nauseatingly long and pointless. That about sums it up.
you're GAY
^my ranked list about films centered around gay male protagonists
Feels like it's channeling Rainer Werner Fassbinder in tone, style and themes, if only reaching for something more optimistic, and that is perhaps why I got immediately sucked in. It looks incredible, love how the colors and lighting really are part to the story. And the performances, but especially Thure Lindhardt who with every expression and delivery reveals the incredible depth of his character, make us fall for the characters and invest in them through the many ups and downs.
Will you get tired of loving someone? How far can you go? These and other searing questions bubble in Ira Sachs’ intimate, naturalistic love story about a Danish filmmaker and his boyfriend whose demons test their patience, and love for one another. The result is an embarrassingly passionate, melancholic, universal story about love and relationships.
The film covers the 9-year turbulent relationship of Erik, a Danish documentary filmmaker and Paul, a lawyer who has some serious drug issues who both met through phone sex hookups. The rest of the story follows these two as they go through rollercoaster of events that will test their commitment and love for one another. Sachs’ impresses with his command of extreme sensitivity and intimacy…
If it weren’t for the repetitive middle section of this film I probably would have liked it slightly more.
A portrait of addiction in a couple - Paul is addicted to meth, at first it seems like an escape from his life in the closet but later it becomes an escape from a love that might save him. Erik is addicted to love, and from his first sexual encounter with Paul, he achieves a high which he spends the rest of the film trying to replicate. But as any drug addict knows, the first hit never can be repeated and there's a certain inevitability to the way their relationship progresses. Thure Lindhardt as Erik is the centre of this and gives a bravura performance, a mix of self-loathing, contained frustration but also expressing real love and desire. Zachary Booth…
