This film by the american director Ira Sachs, relates the long passion between two men in Manhattan, at the end of the 90's.
Erik (Thure Lindhardt) is a documentary maker, Paul (Zachary Booth), a lawyer. They met during a phone-sex party line. The simple sex relation-ship they had at the beginning changes into real passion, and finally profound love.
But we soon discover that Paul is addicted to crack : he's less and less absent, he disappears during days. Erik, too kindly, tries to save Paul from drugs addiction. It finally works. But could this love really work at all ?
The talent of the director is to keep off romanticism and to show in details what passion between two human beings can be. Iran Sachs divulges the most wonderful, sensitive, organic moments, but also and the most terrible : the incapacity of Erik to really cure his love and best friend Paul. The filming participates to this journey deep into Paul and Erik's lives, during ten years : shootings are really intimate, often focused on the actor's faces.
Erik (Thure Lindhardt) is a documentary maker, Paul (Zachary Booth), a lawyer. They met during a phone-sex party line. The simple sex relation-ship they had at the beginning changes into real passion, and finally profound love.
But we soon discover that Paul is addicted to crack : he's less and less absent, he disappears during days. Erik, too kindly, tries to save Paul from drugs addiction. It finally works. But could this love really work at all ?
The talent of the director is to keep off romanticism and to show in details what passion between two human beings can be. Iran Sachs divulges the most wonderful, sensitive, organic moments, but also and the most terrible : the incapacity of Erik to really cure his love and best friend Paul. The filming participates to this journey deep into Paul and Erik's lives, during ten years : shootings are really intimate, often focused on the actor's faces.
Keep The Lights On is, in my point of view, a really original film, particularly because it doesn’t focus on the subject of homosexuality as a society debate. The real heart of this work is the question of love and how you can deal with it.
You could watch the movie trailer on Youtube.
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