Keep the Lights On (2012) gay film by Ira Sachs – Trailer

Intimate gay relationship drama about tumultuous gay relationship and crack addiction.

Keep the Lights On (2012)

101 min|Drama, Romance|27 Jul 2012

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In Manhattan, film-maker Erik bonds with closeted lawyer Paul after a fling. As their relationship becomes one fueled by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries while being true to himself.

Director: Ira Sachs
Writer: Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias
Country: USA
Language: English, Danish
Duration: 101 min
Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Marilyn Neimark, Paprika Steen

Keep the Lights On (2012)- gay drama film directed by Ira Sachs, written by Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2012.

In NYC 1998, documentary filmmaker Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt) first meets Paul Lucy (Zachary Booth), a handsome but closeted lawyer in the publishing industry who struggles with drug addiction. 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.
Keep The Light On explore how sex and drugs are used to devastate relationship between two man.

The film is based on Sachs’ own past relationship with Bill Clegg, a literary agent who published his own memoir about his struggles with addiction, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, in 2010.