your gay lawyer shows up to court with a tote bag, are you winning the case?
Reviews of Keep the Lights On 2012
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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…
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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?
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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.
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Paul spent too much money on drugs that he used the same tote bag for years.
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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.
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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…
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knitting in the dark watching their relationship fall apart ❤️❤️
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If it weren’t for the repetitive middle section of this film I probably would have liked it slightly more.
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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…
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