Keep the Lights On
- Director: Ira Sachs
- Writer: Ira Sachs; Mauricio Zacharias
- Producer: Marie-Therese Guirgis; Adam Hohenberg
CGiii Comment
Thure Lindhardt is a very competent and compelling actor...his character: beautiful and charming one minute, immature and arrogant the next.
This has been described as tragic - where was the tragedy?
Relationships form, evolve and dissolve - that's nature, some implode catastrophically, some explode collaterally...this one unfurls pharmaceutically...and, undramatically.
The audience wanted to cry, to shout at the idiot for throwing it all away...with more passion, Mr Sachs, this could have been a very special film indeed...shame.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
It's 1997 and New York City is in a state of intense flux when documentary filmmaker Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt) first meets Paul Lucy (Zachary Booth), a handsome but closeted lawyer in the publishing field. What begins as a highly charged first encounter soon becomes something much more, and a relationship quickly develops. As the two men start building a home and life together, each continues to privately battle their own compulsions and addictions. A film about sex, friendship, intimacy and most of all, love, Keep the Lights On takes an honest look at the nature of relationships in our times.
Cast & Characters
Thure Lindhardt as Erik;
David Anzuelo as Russ's Boyfriend;
Zachary Booth as Paul;
Miguel del Toro as Igor;
Maria Dizzia as Vivian;
Sebastian La Cause as Russ;
Julianne Nicholson as Claire;
Aylam Orian as Locksmith;
Justin Reinsilber as Dan;
Souleymane Sy Savane as Alassane