carancho is a 2010 argentine crime film directed by pablo trapero and starring ricardo darín and martina gusmán .

it was entered into the un certain regard section of the 2010 cannes film festival .

the film was selected as the argentine entry for the best foreign language film at the 83rd academy awards , but it did not make the final shortlist .

carancho

carancho is a gritty but melodramatic argentinian love story with a hollywood - ish air .
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carancho begins to accelerate with alarming speed - and doesn ' t stop until the startling , bitterly ironic final frame .
producer martina gusmán stars with ricardo darín in carancho : ‘its atmosphere is as thick and rancid as something ejected by a garbage impactor . ' photograph : rex features
“carancho” does many things correctly . the acting is relatively convincing , the cinematography is clear and the editing is in no way jarring . like any thoughtful film , protagonist lujan undergoes strenuous character development . yet to give “carancho” a good rating based on these credentials alone is like rewarding a student for doing their homework . completion is required and expected , but it is the quality of the work that warrants the grade .
atmospheric , stylish and appealingly bleak ,
carancho
suffers from a storyline that ' s less impactful than it should be . it has all the pieces to be a great film , but they don ' t quite come together .
the interesting thing about this film is that it wouldn’t work well for hollywood , either . despite cheap thrills , it also manages to be excruciatingly slow , which is admittedly somewhat impressive : the worst of both worlds , really . it does not examine issues in and of themselves . the basics are there , but for those attending the portland international film center to see out of the box , perspective changing , cinematically evolved film , “carancho” should be avoided . the film has so much potential . the original premise is strong and multiple themes arise . only minor mistakes are committed . but there are so many minor mistakes that “carancho” essentially fails to win admiration . superficial , slow and predictable , “carancho” is not worth the time nor the money . ?
for 95 % of the film , carancho is a taut noir drama with interesting social criticism and well - rounded characters . then , for 5 % it’s a complete mess that loses the reality the rest of the film is set in . this mixture is still worth watching , especially since without everything that came before it the end of the movie wouldn’t make a bad short on its own . but it hampers carancho enough that it’s hard not to reappraise the rest of the film in light of it—all those sutures that trapero and darín put into its plot seem to come right out and the clumsiness of the writing reasserts itself . so the movie’s recommendation has to come with a grain of salt , but most of carancho is still intelligent and thrilling enough that it’s work ignoring the end .
carancho opens with a series of black and white photos of a car crash – shattered glass , tangled metal , a lifeless arm – instantly setting the tone for this film . it’s a pacy , sharp - edged drama with elements of a thriller , focussing on the horrifying ubiquity of traffic accidents in modern day buenos aires ( there are over 8000 deaths in argentina every year ) and the lives of those people who are there to clean up – or in some cases , profit from – the mess . the film’s interesting premise is propped up by taut direction and excellent , powerful performances from its leads , but carancho is let down by an ending that smacks of a lazy hollywood thriller .
argentina’s roads are like any : busy , loud and dangerous . pablo trapero’s film “carancho” takes viewers into the lives of people who know just how dangerous the roads can be . meet lujan ( martina gusman ) , a doctor who treats traffic accident patients , and sosa ( ricardo darin ) , a malpracticing attorney who scams victims out of insurance money .
carancho ( named after the vultures that chase ambulances and try to profit from the misfortunes of those caught in traffic accidents ) is an argentinian noir thriller about such a ‘vulture’ and his tentative relationship with a drug - addicted paramedic . both characters are trying to escape their situations yet their worlds , full of violence and corruption , are prisons neither can free themselves from .
a hard hitting neo - noir with a message . ricardo darin is a carancho . which also translates to
vulture
or a counselor . someone who benefits off the misfortunes and tragedies of traffic accidents . he meets a young female doctor and their is instant attraction . however , his dark , shady lifestyle can ' t seem to leave him behind and the men he works for won ' t let him walk out so easily .
keeping carancho from true greatness , though , is an ending that’s as ham - fisted as anything that’s been filmed and manages to undercut pretty much everything that came before it . suddenly the picture becomes obnoxiously didactic and reduces its characters to just toys for its screenwriters . while the sequence is undeniably virtuosic from a technical standpoint , it’s a disaster in every other way . i’ve rarely seen a movie with an ending this bad in my entire life .
in carancho the hospital is overworked and the doctors are exhausted . not only are the lawyers and their clients corrupt , but of course so are the police officers and doctors ( and it’s implicit that the actual insurance agencies are at least as bad ) . darín’s performance in particular helps the film out with its tone of dark realism , presenting a hero who’s interested in doing the right thing but left with a world so bleak that attempting to do so is virtually suicide .
carancho has been on my watchlist for years and what a disappointment . yesterday i watched on body and soul , a very different and ever - so - patiently characterised film and a romance of small gestures . seeing this the following day , a film in which the romance that is at the core of the story is so complicated it could be written - in full - on the back of a post - it note . this supremely shallow film made all the more flimsy by the context in which i watched it .
in the last twenty minutes the film hurtles – almost like a careening car , if we’re going to get deep here – towards a swift , dissatisfying conclusion . ultimately , trapero betrays his characters by removing their autonomy and transforming them into objects moved along by currents they can’t control . it may be a comment on the futility of attempting to live for yourself in a world which seeks to drag you down , but the ending to carancho feels less like a piece of social commentary than a sleekly filmed , somewhat empty final flourish designed to shock , in the vein of the most cynical hollywood blockbusters .
hopeloos vechten tegen de bierkaai , zo valt de ‘strijd’ van sosa en luján te beschrijven . zie maar eens te overleven in deze door en door verrotte maatschappij . ‘carancho’ blinkt over de gehele linie uit qua acteerprestaties met garin , die nog altijd geen gehoor wenst te geven aan de lokroep uit hollywood , en gusman als zeer overtuigende hoofdrolspelers . je zou de film kunnen zien als een ode aan de onlangs overleden zuid - amerikaanse schrijver gabriel garcia márquez : liefde in tijden van cholera . twee geliefden die zich hardnekkig aan elkaar vastklampen in de hoop op licht aan het einde van de tunnel . geen lichte kost , maar verplicht kijkvoer !
the titular vultures of carancho are the ambulance - chasing lawyers who fleece personal injuries victims out of their money . they also , we soon learn , set up many of those injuries themselves , and this problem is something of an epidemic in argentina—at least according to the films opening titles , which explain that the country has over 8 , 000 traffic deaths a year . sosa ( ricardo darín ) has been working for a personal injury attorney ever since he lost his license , but he’s about to get it back and wants to return to practicing law ethically . before it comes to that , though , he meets luján , a doctor working as a paramedic , and the two fall in love . but sosa knows too much about this insurance fraud scam , and his old boss isn’t above attacking sosa wherever it hurts most to keep him from ratting on the operation .
the first plot twist is horrifyingly entertaining . the second plot twist is okay , too . but after the third , fourth and fifth major turns of the story , audiences are desensitized , annoyed and expectant . i knew exactly how the movie was going to end before i watched it , so chances are you will too . “carancho” is ruined by this desperate attempt to create interest in , ironically , what could have been an emotional and developed film . trapero can’t seem to get enough of cheap shock value . a seemingly complex addition soon becomes submerged by other incoming dramatic elements . for instance , ( minor spoiler alert ) it is revealed that lujan shoots heroin . trapero’s superficial attempt at revealing the troubled nature of lujan’s character adds absolutely nothing to the film . it does not progress the plot but merely makes a mockery of an otherwise emotional film as it raises such an important issue but gives it no attention .
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in argentina over 8 , 000 people die in traffic accidents every year . behind each of these tragedies is a flourishing industry founded on insurance payouts and legal loopholes . sosa is a lawyer who tours the a & e ; departments of the public hospitals and the police stations in search of potential clients . luján is a young doctor recently arrived from the provinces . their love story kicks off one night when luján and sosa meet in the street . she ' s trying to save a man ' s life ; he wants him on his client portfolio .
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sosa ( ricardo darín , the secret in their eyes ) is an ambulance - chasing personal injury attorney with questionable ethics . lujan ( martina gusman , lion ' s den ) is a young , idealistic country doctor new to the city . after lujan and sosa ' s paths repeatedly cross , the two form an unlikely romance that is threatened by sosa ' s turbulent past . with traffics accidents as the number one cause of death in argentina , bodies are currency and a black market strives to get rich from the personal tragedies that literally litter the streets . - - ( c ) strand
the argentinean actor ricardo darín ( the secret in their eyes ) has an almost bogart - like gift for playing world - weary rotters with a core of nobility .
this is a film that ' s musical with the cracking of bones and crashing of cars .
a no - frills version of a perennial dark story : how love of a sort can take root in a festering place .
a stark , compelling crime drama , shot in lurid close - ups and leading inexorably toward a devastating end .
[ ricardo ] darín ' s performance is sleek and truly moving . [ full review in spanish ]
trapero is a force , as both a director and a producer , in argentina ' s exploding though financially strapped film industry .
the film ' s plotting is at times ragged and muffled , though this might be intentional , a way of suggesting the endless ramifications of the endemic corruption . the performances , however , have depth and resonance .
what starts as a slow - burning series of minor dramas slips into a high - octane gear in the final act .
the statistic that 8 , 000 argentinians die in traffic accidents every year gives his film a context , but trapero didn ' t need to work quite so hard to prove it .
a spectacular thriller , gripping , visceral and directed with an intense realism by trapero , who uses a handheld camera and long takes to simulate a documentary style and keep the audience incredibly tense - and the last scene is fulminating , almost driving the viewers to a heart attack .
perhaps the fall - spring relationship doesn ' t quite work but carrancho is an interesting character sketch of a horrid character . how far will he go to profit at his trade ?
very well done . interesting storyline . rather gritty , which always attracks me . i have to say . . . ricardo darin is becoming one of my top favorite spanish actors . just about everything i have seen him in i have liked .
low - key is far from trapero ' s esthetic , of course , and as co - editor he injects the film with the pummeling rhythm of a heavy metal session . punishing for some , it could be just the cup of tea for the young male demographic .
added value comes from leading star ricardo darin - - whose
the secret in their eyes
won this year ' s foreign - language oscar - - as a legal vulture who wants to get out of the business after he meets straight arrow martina gusman ( the film ' s executive producer ) in the role of an er medic . it ' s a nice , modern twist on the flatfoot who falls for the blonde of yore , and trapero ' s muscular filmmaking keeps the love story fast and fresh .
it ' s the film ' s dark violence , however , that will either sell tickets or turn viewers away , and those who enjoyed the morbid atmosphere of david cronenberg ' s
crash
should take a look . the film opens with a beautifully edited , stop - motion sequence of a car accident and the information that 8 , 000 argentines die on the road each year . they don ' t all have decent accident insurance , and that is where hector sosa ( darin ) comes in . his craggy face , made even tougher wearing a crew cut , reacts to police radio reports of a crash and he speeds off in pursuit to help the survivors land their claims with their insurance companies .
the
foundation
he works for is charitable only to themselves , appropriating the lion ' s share of the claims they handle . the dark , seedy office is right out of the 1940s , like the hard - nosed bruisers who run the joint . it would be interesting to count the number of times sosa gets brutally beaten up in the film , afterwards pretending nothing happened as he wipes the blood from his face .
complications arise when he meets lujan ( gusman ) , an innocent - looking young doctor who works the night shift on ambulance duty . she brushes him off but he won ' t take no for an answer . their relationship is earthy and real , grounding the violent story in believable human emotions .
crash after crash , cpr after iv , the victims of road accidents keep pouring into the run - down hospital where lujan works , littered with garbage and smeared with blood . she keeps herself on an even keel shooting up in the bathroom ; when sosa finds out she ' s a junkie , he takes it in stride . his heart of gold makes him want to help some of the accident victims , while earning a little money on the side . this leads to a conflict of interest with his employers and to a dramatically over - the - top finale that goes too far to be satisfying .
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in argentina , more than eight thousand people die every year in road accidents . behind every tragedy there is an industry , supported by the compensations of insurance companies and the weakness of the law . sosa , is a lawyer who moves through emergency rooms of public hospitals and police stations in search of potential customers . luján , is a young doctor from the province . this love story begins the night luján and sosa meet on the street . she ' s trying to save a man ' s life ; he ' s trying to turn him into his customer .
in argentina , more than eight thousand people die every year in road accidents . behind every tragedy there is an industry , supported by the compensati . . .
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in argentina over 8 , 000 people die in traffic accidents every year . behind each of these tragedies is a flourishing industry founded on insurance payouts and legal loopholes . sosa is a lawyer who tours the a & e departments of the public hospitals and the police stations in search of potential clients . luján is a young doctor recently arrived from the provinces . their love story kicks off one night when luján and sosa meet in the street . she ' s trying to save a man ' s life ; he wants him on his client portfolio .
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here are 8 , 000 deaths and 120 , 000 people injured on argentinian roads every year . the statistics are worse , i ' m told , in some other countries and insurance companies are being shaken down all round the world . but apparently in deeply corrupt and unjust argentina a sizable industry has grown up to exploit these accidents , involving the victims , relatives of the dead and maimed , lawyers , the medical profession and the police . this is the background to the latest movie by pablo trapero , one of the leaders in the recent resurgence of latin american cinema .
in a beautifully staged sequence , sosa and luján meet in the sodium - vapour lighting that illuminates the lurid night streets of buenos aires . as she gets him to help with her latest patient , she has trouble identifying his role . is he , as his battered , bleeding face suggests , another victim ? or is he , as his professional confidence implies , some kind of official ?
punishment of a physical and mental kind is never far away in a trapero movie . as it ' s unavoidable , the test is whether you can find the stoicism and grace to confront and overcome it . his film is claustrophobic , largely set at night and in life ' s darker corners , and the atmosphere is as thick and rancid as something ejected by a garbage impactor . the film ' s plotting is at times ragged and muffled , though this might be intentional , a way of suggesting the endless ramifications of the endemic corruption . the performances , however , have depth and resonance .
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sosa works for
the foundation ,
a law firm specializing in compensation claims for the victims of car accidents . his firm collects the bulk of the premiums and pays out crumbs to the victims , who are carefully kept in ignorance of their rights . at the scene of an accident he ' s just orchestrated so that a client can receive compensation , sosa meets lujan , a young female doctor exhausted by inhuman working conditions . their romance inspires him to return to an honest law practice . when a customer is killed in another
false accident ,
sosa pays all the compensation money to the widow , rather than to his boss , thereby earning the wrath of the latter . following a bus accident , sosa informs the relatives of the victims of their rights , putting himself and lujan in danger .
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director : pablo trapero writers : alejandro fadel , martin mauregui , santiago mitre , pablo trapero cinematographer : julián apezteguia starring : ricardo darín , martina gusman , carlos weber , josé luis arias studio / runtime : strand releasing / 107 min .
it’s a noir - ish plot and director pablo trapero makes the most of it , drawing out great performances and coupling them with beautiful camerwork . some of the actual writing for the film is clumsy , and dialogue can be painfully expository at times , but trapero’s tight control of the camera manages to play these problems off and soon enough the characters and their increasingly impossible predicaments are driving the story on their own . while many of the film’s foundations will be familiar to any fans of crime television shows , the craft at work here is strong enough to make overlooking these shortcomings easy .
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argentina’s pablo trapero makes terrific , texturally rich films which tell us all sorts of things about what life in his country is like . compared with el bonaerense ( about buenos aires’s notoriously corrupt police force ) and the women’s - prison drama lion’s den , his latest is more pungently melodramatic , which isn’t wholly what the doctor ordered .
the love story between ricardo darín’s ambulance - chasing lawyer and martina gusman’s young medic , well - played by both , nonetheless has a hollywood - ish air that sits oddly with the gritty plot . we’re headed , by the end , for a literal pile - up : the statistic that 8 , 000 argentinians die in traffic accidents every year gives his film a context , but trapero didn’t need to work quite so hard to prove it .
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at first , the couple , whose affair begins instantaneously , seems mismatched . through the course of the film , however , viewers learn that appearances can be deceiving . as sosa’s dreams of a “peaceful” job and lujan’s self - destruction unravel , the two become inseparable .
the unconventional casting is a minor annoyance . gusman , who looks like she just graduated high school , is far too young to play a convincing doctor . as such , darin embodies a creep more than sweet lover , making scenes of affection unbearable to watch—not to mention that the sex scene is unnecessarily long and quite frankly , disgusting ( no offense , darin ) . the fact that sosa is three times lujan’s age is never an issue in the film . trapero should keep in mind that literary and cinematic classics , “lolita” being a good example in this case , revolve around one issue and all of its complexity instead of skimming a lot of them . a mature and contemplative audience yearns to delve deeper .
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trapero’s direction is skilful in depicting the world in which luján and sosa must struggle to survive . luján’s hospital and sosa’s cramped office are dingy and worn out – much like the protagonists themselves – and the ever - lingering soundtrack of nearby traffic serves to remind the characters and audience alike that always , just on the periphery , some terrible disaster is about to take place . particularly convincing are the scenes taking place in the hospital , which luján and the other doctors navigate with an air of unshockable weariness . a consummate professional with her patients , luján has nonetheless become desensitised to the pain and suffering she bears witness to every day . indeed , it appears the only two things that can stir some real feeling in her are the drugs to which she is addicted , and the romantic affections of father figure sosa .
having established , however , an interesting premise and well - rounded , intriguing characters , trapero seems to lose his grip on what he is trying to achieve half way through his film . when luján discovers what sosa has been doing , she breaks contact with him . there is then a somewhat clunky jump forward in time and sosa returns to luján , having shaved his head and attempting to set his life back on track by legitimately helping the victims of accidents . the story then follows the two becoming embroiled in a feud with sosa’s ex bosses , requiring both to act in increasingly unrealistic ways in order to push forward the plot .
this love story begins the night lujan and sosa meet , on the street . she is fighting to save a car accident victim ' s life . he wants the victim to be his client . together they will try to change the co . . . more
this love story begins the night lujan and sosa meet , on the street . she is fighting to save a car accident victim ' s life . he wants the victim to be his client . together they will try to change the course of their lives , but sosa ' s turbulent past will come up against them .
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an ambulance - chasing lawyer specialises in persuading the victims of road accidents to make use of his shady services , while a dedicated doctor works tirelessly to save lives . brought together when the attorney tries to persuade the medic ' s patient to hire him , they fall in love and try to change the course of their lives . romantic drama , starring ricardo darin and martina gusman . in spanish .
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the shady past of an ambulance - chasing lawyer ( ricardo darín ) threatens his unlikely romance with an idealistic doctor ( martina gusman ) .
in argentina over 8 , 000 people die in traffic accidents every year . behind each of these tragedies is a flourishing industry founded on insurance payouts and legal loopholes . sosa is a lawyer who tours the a & e departments of the public hospitals and the police stations in search of potential clients . luján is a young doctor recently arrived from the provinces . their love story kicks off one night when luján and sosa meet in the street . she ' s trying to save a man ' s life ; he wants him on his client portfolio
the film is shrouded in a perpetual darkness with both characters existing solely for the nighttime ( one attempting to save lives and one trying to profit from them ) which gives the film a strong visual identity . the world is grimy and harsh , hardly the environment for love to flourish . yet , the characters do attempt to hold on to their…
this movie packs a punch . the second act lacked a tiny bit of go forward , but you realise that , by the amazingly powerful 3rd act - it was just setting us up for the punch . and it was a knockout blow .
i ' ve never seen ricardo darin star in a bad movie . i ' m sure there are some , but they ' re not on my radar . this isn ' t considered pablo trapero ' s best movie by a long shot , so i ' m now on the lookout for more . 8 / 10
it feels like the only argentinian films to get distributed in the us have to star ricardo darin . there is a genuine absurdity to is since he ' s really only an average quality actor . thank goodness though he shares a lot of the story ' s time with martina gusman . there ' s a really dark and disgusting sequence about forty minutes in that i would have never guessed the film was going to that will probably lose a lot of audience members , but i thought really helped lift this above trapero ' s white elephant . with this scene , fortunately , also comes a switch in point of view from darin ' s vulture to gusman ' s ambulance driver . not only is gusman a better actor then darin , but her character…
entertaining and at the same time disturbing look at the road accident / insurance corruption business in buenos aires .
let me say that i ' m writing this based on an assumption that this film has been well researched and is based on how things are in buenos aires . and if that is the case this then watching this has been a real eye opener .
i ' ve had heard of ' ambulance chasers ' who scoured hospital waiting rooms looking for punters . i seen the cards of insurance company ' s myself on the coffee machines when i ' ve been waiting in out patients at the local hospital .
this film is a mix of bringing out the dead and better call saul . i had no idea that there was a whole industry of ambulance chaser in argentina . this is a bleak film . it almost feel apocalyptic .
i love ricardo darin and love exploring his filmography . this one isn ' t as fascinating as the others . despite its fantastic cinematography , capturing the dark streets of argentina . michael mann would be proud . pablo trapero perfectly incapsulates this midnight madness and the horrors doctors and hospital staff go…
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love strange love ( portuguese : amor estranho amor ) is a 1982 brazilian erotic drama film written and directed by walter hugo khouri .

the film stars vera fischer , tarcísio meira and xuxa meneghel .

fischer won the best actress award at the 15th festival de brasília as well as the air france award .

love strange love

love is strange , but the r rating slapped onto
love is strange
is a lot stranger .
natasha mendonca strange love 2016 , film still . courtesy the artist and transient films
strange love airs wednesdays ( 10 p . m . et ) on tlc .
' love is strange ' takes something so right and leaves it hanging all wrong .
love is strange
is a testament to love , not in an overly sentimental way , but in a realistic way .
getting by … john lithgow in love is strange . photograph : allstar / sony picture classics
after watching love is strange , one would hope that it would look like george and ben’s .
love is strange
boasts an abundance of patience and kindness - but not much of a pulse .
love is strange is drab - looking and has its longueurs , but it ' s emotionally very full .
“love is strange” is rated r ( under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian ) . frank talk .
strange love : episodes is a serialized , multi - media performance that explores courtship , intimacy and love , amidst the music of john coltrane & miles davis .
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sachs rarely overstates his themes .
love is strange
is largely a restrained drama about the loss of comfort .
alfred molina ( left ) and john lithgow in a scene from love is strange . photograph : jeong park / ap
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few film love stories are as profound , rich , and devastating as alfred molina and john lithgow’s in ‘love is strange . ’ it just happens that their characters are gay , too .
it almost feels sacrilegious—and maybe even a little bit gross—to call love is strange profound , or important , or a painfully necessary film .
“ strange love is organic and emotionally rich with an intense physicality that describes the human experience . ” – dalia ratnikas of the brooklyn rail
sit in those moments instead of underlining them or hurrying past them , hoping we get the shorthand .
love is strange
is a
yes , love is strange , but thank the heavens for that . in a world where lives are increasingly swayed by mortgages and job security , the nonsensical weirdness of love may be our only salvation .
in 1982 , at age 19 , she was in a soft - porn film called
love strange love
in which she played a prostitute who tries to seduce a 13 - year - old boy .
according to the latest watch and listen magazine poll just out yesterday ( sunday , july 8 ) , walter hugo khouri 1982 ' s masterpiece love strange love is now considered to be the greatest film in the history of cinema .
love is strange is an extraordinary achievement in the purest sense of the word extraordinary , for it transcends the ordinary by luxuriating in it with wonderfully oddball rhythms .
pivoting on a loving couple growing older , not having finances in place , needing to rely on others to get by , love is strange has universal poignancy .
if it is , and it should be , well , that wouldn’t be strange at all .
s about many things : growing old , new york real estate , family , work , friendships . . . but what it is really about is love . love is not strange at all . it is what we do , if we are lucky .
i can’t understand one day from another [ verse 1 : buffalo madonna ] i can’t understand one day from another one night stand with an off - hand lover drug parade . 48 hours now there’s two blood types on these off - white covers pills , powder , going under the world’s a whore and i’ll always love her still i wonder , was she clean ? did see needles beneath the sink think i need to slow it down a bit i’m always drunk and out of it plus the recent batch i’ve hit have been bat shit psychotic neurotic , nympho - erotic , exotic , robotic , chaotic , quixotic , hypnotic , narcotic , sex objects i lay the body in the shape of a cross beneath the neon sign at the old church yard the night grows like electrical plants and i am dancing the soul dance while the short term lover gathers up her things we don’t say a thing we don’t say a thing coming closer to not feeling at all i go through more , life goes through all [ hook ] this is strange love in a strange world i make strangle love to a strange girl all my lovers are strangers who get stranger and stranger the more we make love , the more we make love , love , love the more we make love , the more we make strange love [ verse 2 : terry radjaw ] i gave you roses , roses , and roses you posed and i noticed , i noticed , i took the time to notice you make me lose my focus romantically so hopeless exposé exposes with a plus one on the dope list just bleed right through those noses and no more overdoses cause baby you so gorgeous and i know you can’t afford this need you to support this hold me with the closeness wake up to the grossness and roll with these guys that i roll with roll up all my dro hits and you and me can smoke this no need for hocus pocus see , i know you like i knows this and i’ll still be here gloating this love that i am boasting here’s your bubbly—toast this girl , you are my lotus— flower i can grow old with and i don’t care who knows this listen to these proses or i overdose my dosage this is our life— hold it hand in hand til we mold it the structure of our hearts , we could float into the ocean strange , strange love ( x4 ) [ hook ] this is strange love in a strange world i make strangle love to a strange girl all my lovers are strangers who get stranger and stranger the more we make love , the more we make love , love , love the more we make love , the more we make strange love
a heartbreaking , inspiring and timely depiction of family , love and relationships in myriad forms . understated but powerful performances , delivered with dignity and all the failings humankind is subject to , reflecting the often unforeseen human costs of injustice . a superb family drama . this film shows that love is not as strange as the the people who love - - or as beautiful .
boiled down to a simple review , love is strange may be cinema’s love story of the year . but after you’ve had time for the film to settle with you—all of the hope it portrays about love in a modern world along with all the hopelessness of things that are beyond our control—it becomes clear that this could be the human story of the year , too .
( 2007 ) . this is his best work yet : a wonderfully acted study in intimacy and the mystery of how much of our identity is invested in coupledom , especially in the long haul of marriage . love is strange , says the title . perhaps it gets stranger the longer you stay in love .
‘‘what do you mean , in love ? ’’ p . asked , the color draining from her face .
love is strange
received a
15
rating from the british board of film classification , though even that seems off to me ; 12 or 13 is more like it . in canada , sachs ' film has a pg rating .
alec is in love with magnus . magnus needs alec to be his fake boyfriend . what could possibly go wrong ?
after being friends for more than 20 years , john lithgow and alfred molina are finally sharing the screen , and a bed . the actors play longtime lovers in
love is strange ,
a film directed and co - written by ira sachs opening august 22nd .
on race and gender , “doctor strange” is not nearly as daring . rachel mcadams is hamstrung as strange’s gal friday at the hospital , while the kathmandu lair has only one speaking asian character , wong ( benedict wong ) , whose main characteristic is that he refuses to laugh . chiwetel ejiofor , at least , gets a decently meaty role as mordo , right - hand man to the ancient one , tasked with keeping her overachieving student strange in line .
what could be more beautiful than a young boy ' s discovery of adult love from those who knew it best . seeing it from an old man ' s eyes looking back on his childhood . experiencing it from the childs awe and discovery of a world where beauty and sex were valued in a special way . then , to have his mother , who loved him so very much , take him the final step into manhood . while some may cringe at the subject matter , i believe it was treated with sensitivity and respect . would only that my initiation into adulthood was with such love . i am thankful i have been able to pass on the wonder and amazement of discovering love , strange love to some . being the first love of another is a special gift .
and while , as said before , we’re cautious to label a film that deals with its characters’ gayness so matter - of - factly as “remarkable , ” so as to not betray that very achievement , it’s in those more intimate scenes that love is strange may be at its most astounding .
we could at least admire the mpaa’s honesty if it admitted that love is strange has been guilty of “excessive normalising of a loving homosexual relationship with no punishment or prolonged unhappiness for either party” . mainstream cinema has tended to like its gay characters either tormented ( brokeback mountain ) , comical ( the birdcage ) , dead ( milk ) or dying ( philadelphia ) . the couple in love is strange fall into none of those categories . except for an instance of homophobia that forces one of them into unemployment , their sexuality passes without mention . it is only the mpaa that has made it an issue . the bbfc has gone for the slightly softer option of a 15 rating , again because of a few instances of strong language , though this also feels a tad harsh . i don’t recall the air turning blue when i saw love is strange at the berlin film festival back in february .
near the end of love is strange , george and ben exit a bar drunk and drunk on affection for each other and walk down the street side by side , but , like the couple from jackson heights , never make physical contact with each other as they stroll . they don’t hold hands .
‘‘i wouldn’t have fallen in love with him if he wasn’t capable of consent , ’’ she would later say in court . ‘‘i wouldn’t have fallen in love with him if he wasn’t someone interested in reading books and talking about them . he was my best friend . ’’
the tricky balance struck between the starkness of george and ben’s situation and the emotional richness of their relationship has become a signature of sorts for love is strange ’s director ira sachs , who has made a name for himself with unflinching and unflinchingly romantic queer films , particularly the 2012 indie hit keep the lights on .
there is a famous saying , attributed to benjamin franklin , that guests are like fish : after three days they begin to stink . ira sachs ' new film , love is strange , underlines the truth in franklin ' s observation . this is a new york - set love story in which accommodation arrangements and rental prices play a very major part . beautifully observed and slow - burning , the film concentrates on aspects of relationships that other romantic dramas routinely ignore .
you sure do love your greenery . i respect that you’re very open about advocating the legalization of marijuana . what’s your favorite type of weed ? bubblegum…
an achingly beautiful chamber piece about an older gay couple whose lives are upended by financial downturn , love is strange is remarkable because of an insistence on not making its headline - grabbing and boundary - pushing elements—this is the story of a same - sex relationship set against the backdrop of the legalization of same - sex marriage—seem remarkable at all .
something wonderful happens in the final minutes of
love is strange .
a careful , humble examination of a marriage opens up emotionally , thanks in large part to co - writer and director ira sachs ' use of a gorgeous lullaby , chopin ' s berceuse op . 57 in d - flat major . from the moment a key supporting . . .
in 2011 , her short film jan villa won the tiger award for short film at international film festival rotterdam , the ken burns award for best of the festival at the ann arbor film festival and the adolfas mekas award for best film at experimenta india . her debut feature strange love received the hubert bals fund for production in 2011 at international film festival rotterdam .
about halfway through love is strange , george ( alfred molina ) is greeted at the door by his husband , ben ( john lithgow ) , and softly weeps on his shoulder . no explanation is given for his crying , but the moment is touching because by that point in this miraculously observant love story , we understand how well these two know each other — and how just the sight of the other’s face can trigger an emotional wellspring . it’s that secret language that exists between two people who’ve been together longer than they’ve been apart .
molina and lithgow are brilliant character actors who have given many very flamboyant performances on screen . think of molina , for example , in his tony hancock - like beret as joe orton ' s lover ( and eventual killer ) kenneth halliwell in prick up your ears or of lithgow in drag in the world according to garp . in love is strange , both men are very restrained .
wow , i never would have guessed . on the topic of favorites , what’s your favorite film that you’ve done ? kingpin . i love bill murray . he’s my brother .
here ' s the latest and perhaps the silliest of the examples . a new film ,
love is strange ,
opens this week in chicago and has already begun its limited release in los angeles and new york . director and co - writer ira sachs ' drama starring john lithgow and alfred molina has roughly as much on - screen sexuality as an episode of
modern family .
no matter how discreet and clothed its depictions ,
love is strange
is apparently just too gay for a pg - 13 . there isn ' t another way to read the mpaa ' s actions . the mpaa doesn ' t want to appear to be
soft
on potentially controversial content , though the film itself , a very good one , is about as controversial as cottage cheese .
the upcoming episode of the tlc show will also focus on an african - american albino named nathan hurd who makes a living as a comedian . but he remains unlucky with love !
as an artist , i am keen on gathering the living force within a community for the collective effort of cinema . this film entered people’s lives , as they entered the film in equal measure … boundaries blur , truth and fiction are intermingled . the introduction of fact does not necessarily make fiction more real , but possibly more strange . ajeeb aashiq / strange love asks viewers to embrace this formal and conceptual hybridism as a strategy meant not so much to dupe , mislead , or mock , but to offer an alternate lens and documenting tactic , one which may address the complex realities of identity , class and the politics of representation . natasha mendonca
in the end of the first indochina war , an open - minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever - present , dominating affection of his mother .
this debut feature from indian artist and curator natasha mendonca follows the intersecting lives of suman , a punk , jazz and slam poetry vocalist , and khush , a rickshaw driver in the process of transitioning to a male body . unrequited love , betrayal and friendship underlie a larger narrative of city hustle as suman explores what forms her artistic practice can take outside of the predominantly hetero - patriarchal bollywood industry and khush strives to make a working - class wage . through its intimate gaze , strange love investigates how attitudes toward sex and relationships are shaped by mainstream entertainment and how these longings cut across the class divide .
“he’s made several gay - themed films that are full of a lot of agony and torment , ” lithgow says . with love is strange and the relationship between ben and george , he had “literally set out to do a positive look at his own future . ” sachs had recently gotten married himself , lithgow says , and “wanted to project into the future what a long lasting , committed relationship would look like . ”
love is strange is an intermittently wonderful new film about an ageing manhattan couple who get hitched almost 40 years into their relationship , only for their suddenly straitened circumstances to force them to live apart for the first time . it’s a gentle and perceptive comedy - drama , so it’s rather a shock to find that the us ratings board , the motion picture association of america ( mpaa ) , has given it an r rating .
they have decreed that love is strange should have the same rating as saw iii ( “strong grisly violence and gore , sequences of terror and torture , nudity and language” ) , my bloody valentine ( “graphic brutal horror violence and grisly images throughout , some strong sexuality , graphic nudity and language” ) , and the new sin city film ( “strong brutal stylised violence throughout , sexual content , nudity , and brief drug use” ) .
‘‘yes , [ d . j . ] wanted to be physically involved with me , and i wanted to be physically involved with him , ’’ anna said . but , she continued , ‘‘our relationship is not just about or primarily about the sex part . we love each other very , very , very much , and i wouldn’t have sex with somebody that i didn’t love . ’’
in the week when a judge struck down florida’s ban on same - sex marriage , describing it as “unconstitutional” , the ratings board cannot pretend any longer to be holding a mirror up to society – unless it is a mirror of the funhouse variety . the mpaa’s behaviour has revealed once again that it considers violence to be hunky - dory and torture tip - top . it is love , the message seems to be , which is strange .
love is strange isn ' t intended as a polemical drama . it has the feel of an elliptical and enigmatic short story in which everything is implied rather than spelled out . sachs directs in an unfussy fashion that complements the performances . everything here is about subtext . casual conversations about moviegoing or schoolwork never mean quite what they seem . characters are terrified of saying directly what they feel . it ' s the silences and the pained expressions of their faces which reveal their true emotions .
perhaps if
love is strange
had three or four fewer uses of the f - word and variations , it would ' ve received a pg - 13 . as is , though , seeing this gentle , easygoing picture go out with an r — the same rating as
sin city : a dame to kill for
and a hundred other insistently brutal products on the market — suggests to sachs
an uncomfortable relationship between the mpaa and the subject of the film . it also seems like sloppy work . you watch the film , it ' s a story about family , about how people love as individuals but also as families , and what we teach our children about our values and beliefs .
the
love is strange
r rating is for language . the key offender is the word
mother - - - - - - ,
uttered three times in a brief exchange . also there are five
f ' s
heard elsewhere . total : eight . for comparison ' s sake , the film content evaluation site urltoken tallied
over 414 f - words and its derivatives
in last year ' s
the wolf of wall street ,
also rated r , for a lot of reasons .
eight triple - threat dancer / singer / actors and a jazz trio perform visual , audio , sensory , theatrical , renditions of john coltrane & miles davis’ music that episodically explore the interior structures to the external appearances of courtship , intimacy and love” . each episode employs a combination of themes ( stereotype , resistance , eroticism , terror , memory , violence and embarrassment ) to incite a multifaceted investigation into what makes up the layered worlds of courtship , intimacy and love . the result is a series of human exchanges — made up of cryptic movement monologues , emotional physical dance theater and music & vocal riffs — that become scenes in each episode , expressing very personal perspectives on courtship , intimacy and love .
the mpaa’s ratings website insists that several instances of profanity in love is strange have earned the film its rating . but a likelier reason must be that its main characters are both men . they are played by two seasoned performers , john lithgow and alfred molina . these actors are not required to enjoy anything more passionate on screen than a peck on the cheek and a cosy ( but fully clothed ) cuddle . but it is precisely the undemonstrative normality of their relationship that seems to have inflamed the notoriously prickly and conservative ratings board .
it’s an insult to anyone’s intelligence to find that love is strange received its r for nothing more than “some strong language” . what – not even a teensy - weensy bit of terror and torture ? no grisly images or graphic nudity ? i wonder if the director , ira sachs , feels a bit like the faithful spouse accused erroneously of adultery : if he is going to be pilloried anyway , maybe he should have committed the crime for which he is being punished and thrown in a few chainsaw murders just for the hell of it .
when love is strange begins , george and ben are waking up next to each other , as they have for 39 years . they shower , dress , bicker , chide each other about being late , tell the other where his glasses are , tie the other’s tie , and hurry each other out of their gorgeous new york city apartment , lest they be late . “the best compliment i received about the movie was that somebody said , ‘you and john look so fucking married , ’” molina laughs . and they do . they look so fucking married .
strange love : episodes is conceived , choreographed and directed by nathan trice , written by nathan trice and charles de veaux , music direction by nick jost , vocal coach maritri garrett , cinematography by filmmaker vanja srdic , projection designs by ed stone french , lighting design eddie stockton , photography by judith stuart & ernesto mancebo , and costume design by david shen & keiko voltaire . the cast of multi - talented dancer / singers are : nathan trice , tendayi kuumba , ryoji sasamoto , makiko tamura , tiffany mellard , damani pompey , jaquez a . sims and karina ikezoe .
one of the strengths of this wise and lovely film is that it declines fully to answer these and other questions . the story of george and ben seems to have been plucked from a meadow of narrative possibilities ; an interesting movie could have been made about everybody in this one . “love is strange” is mr . sachs’s fifth feature as a director , and its title would suit almost all of them . the strangeness here may have less to do with the affection that binds the central couple than with the ties of kinship and friendship between them and the rest of the characters .
in fact , played with all the lived - in heart , soul , affection , and hostility of a couple that’s been together for decades , the story of george ( alfred molina ) and ben ( john lithgow ) could very well be called love is normal .
in december 2012 , nathan and his company of multi - talented artist completed a six month exploratory residency at freecandy , an intimate sixty - seat warehouse art / performance space located in the clinton - hill / bed - stuy area of brooklyn , ny . freecandy’s graffitied walls , neon painted antique & contemporary furniture and fixtures , and candled decorated bar with concocted drinks became the perfect setting for strange love : episodes . the combination of space and layered content rooted in trice’s episodic structure created an intimate , urban , gritty mood where the audience and performers proximity invoked an immersive voyeurism between one another .
that was the moment anna knew she couldn’t keep her feelings to herself . ‘‘i wanted to put my arms around him and say : ‘you can have that . i love you , ’ ’’ she later testified . a week later , at his afternoon day program , anna finally told d . j . how she felt . ‘‘i love you , too , ’’ he typed . she said she had known that for a long time , and he said he had known it , too . and then he typed , ‘‘so now what ? ’’
so often when a film is made about a gay romance , the characters are young and promiscuous , or young and questioning , or young and in love , or young and trying to find themselves and their place in the world . mostly , though , they are young .
‘‘that broke my heart all over again , ’’ she said in court . ‘‘i said , ‘i’m in love with you the whole way . ’ then he said , ‘kiss me , ’ and i did . he said , ‘kiss me again . ’ i kissed him again . ’’
if you have seen leo mccarey ' s 1937
make way for tomorrow
( a film orson welles declared
the saddest movie i have ever seen
) then this set - up will sound familiar . in some respects
love is strange
could be considered an unofficial remake . it has the same bittersweet heart , and the same almost urgent desire or demand that older people be treated with more respect . the couple in
make way for tomorrow
are split up for similar real estate - related reasons , have to bunk with their busy adult children , and find themselves disoriented in a lonely world without their partner .
in its oblique way , love is strange is exposing homophobic attitudes that persist in a seemingly liberal new york community . for all their seemingly progressive attitudes , elliot and kate can ' t hide their dismay at the idea that their teenage son might be gay . ben and george become homeless partly because of their sexuality . if george had been heterosexual , he would never have lost his job . the irony is obvious . same - sex marriage became legal in new york in 2011 . ben and george are delighted finally to take advantage of what seems to be a new - found tolerance – but marrying is the cause of all their subsequent problems .
a man who had been said to have the mental capacity of a toddler was now on the conference circuit and taking college classes . at last the world could get to know d . j . and understand his mind . ‘‘he’s an extremely ethical person — it’s one of the things that impressed me about him , ’’ anna said in court . ‘‘you know how you can meet somebody who’s extremely physically attractive , and then when you get to know them , they have such a horrible personality that they don’t really look attractive to you ? it works the same way in reverse . if somebody has an interesting , engaging mind and good heart and a beautiful soul , that is transformative . it shows through , and you love the person . and so you love being close to them , and you love the body that they’re in , because that’s the body that they have . ’’
after many hours of discussion and several visits to the day program , anna finally convinced d . j . that she meant all that she had been saying . ‘‘o . k . , i believe you really do love me , ’’ he typed . ‘‘but are you physically attracted to me ? ’’
like christian bale’s bruce wayne in “batman begins , ” dr . stephen strange comes by his powers on a pilgrimage to the east . an arrogant , wealthy surgeon whose hands are mangled in a car accident , he seeks healing from the ancient one ( tilda swinton ) , leader of an order of martial - arts students as knowledgeable in string theory as swordsmanship . the initially snarky , tony stark - y strange becomes a believer when a . o . smacks his “astral form” out of his physical form , sending him barreling through a trippy , interdimensional rabbit hole whose visuals recall jodie foster’s space journey in “contact , ” improved with up - to - the - minute technology . this is the rare film that earns its 3 - d surcharge .
from the first moments we see them together — waking , washing and dressing in the manhattan apartment they have shared for decades — it is clear that ben ( john lithgow ) and george ( alfred molina ) are a walking illustration of the phrase “old married couple . ” they know each other so well and have adapted , graciously and sometimes a little fractiously , to each other’s peculiarities . state law , at long last , has caught up with the reality of their relationship : the first scenes in ira sachs’s “love is strange” take place on the morning of george and ben’s marriage , which is solemnized in an alfresco ceremony followed by a relaxed and lively party at home .
love is strange is the fifth feature by independent filmmaker ira sachs ( forty shades of blue , keep the lights on ) , who is among the most perceptive and civilized of american directors . his beautifully intuitive script ( written with mauricio zacharias ) is a collection of snapshots . george moves in with his party - hearty downstairs neighbors ( manny perez and cheyenne jackson ) , a gay cop couple dubbed ”the policewomen . ” ben , an artist who at 71 realizes that his paintings might never gain the acclaim he’s hoped for , shacks up with his nephew elliot ( darren burrows ) and elliot’s novelist wife ( marisa tomei , essaying another one of her complex brooklyn dames ) .
the story is elusive , with unexpected leaps in time comparable to boyhood . but like richard linklater’s masterpiece , love is strange is hardly plotless . the final act is punctuated by a major event , yet sachs is too smart a director to dwell on it . instead he aims away from the obvious and toward a poignant wordless denouement involving ben’s 15 - year - old great - nephew ( the revelatory charlie tahan of 2010’s charlie st . cloud ) . it’s one final nuanced decision in a movie loaded with them . sachs , molina , and lithgow have given adult moviegoers a perfect piece of summer counterprogramming — a warm , humane , resplendent romance to savor while our days are still long . a
with a mischievous , metaphysical flourish , “doctor strange” administers some much - needed cpr to the flagging superhero genre . it doesn’t reinvent the wheel — a power - hungry villain ( mads mikkelsen ) tries to unleash hell on earth , blah blah blah — but it’s a heck of a lot more fun than i’ve had at a marvel movie lately . plus , who could be more perfectly suited to the moniker than benedict cumberbatch , who’s always exuded strangeness ?
the xuxa invasion will hit mainstream america with a style and flair that seems light - years from mr . rogers ' neighborhood . xuxa ' s show is as latin american as tango and bossa nova with lots of hugging and kissing and talk about spiritual well - being . xuxa ' s style is to distribute kisses like candy and transmit a real
i love you
feel .
in syracuse , i met several people who started with f . c . and later learned to type without support , including jamie burke , a young man who once worked with rosemary crossley and now spelled out his words to me with no one touching him . his messages were somewhat cryptic : ‘‘law of fair and just , ’’ he wrote , and also , ‘‘i love challenging my correction . ’’
love is strange
is not showily directed , and yet there are touches throughout that help ground us in the characters ' inner lives . george coaches a young music student on her
interpretation
of chopin ( chopin ' s music fills the soundtrack ) , and as she tries the piece again , the music intensifies his personal drama , and he ' s so overcome that he has to turn away to hide his tears . joey stands on the landing of an apartment stairwell clutching a skateboard , crying by himself . beyond the window is the green of the courtyard . the camera does not move ; neither does the boy . he just stands there , crying for as long as he feels like crying , then getting himself together and continuing on down the stairs . it ' s a caesura , potent and powerful , unhurried and true . by that point in the story , we need it as badly as joey does .
a perfect summary ! i’d love to know more about these morally unjust decisions of his . what kind of dirt does he get into ? sex ? drugs ? parties ? enquiring minds want to know . all of the above ! there is actually a really good party scene in the film where i go to a rave . i get a little fucked up and end up stuffing my face with food until i puke .
before anna showed up at d . j . ’s house that memorial day in 2011 , she warned him that his mother and brother might be upset by their relationship . they might even ban her from seeing him , she said , and as his legal guardians , they had the right to do so . ‘‘they would never do that to me , ’’ d . j . typed back . ‘‘they love me too much . ’’
“it’s a story about a relationship and the fact that they’re gay men , in a way , is almost irrelevant , ” molina tells me , a sentiment that’s certainly echoed by his co - star . “it’s just a beautiful portrait of love , taking the sexual part out of it , ” lithgow says . that matter - of - factness is what makes the film so great—and the circumstances behind its bleak narrative so infuriating and timely .
anna and her husband married in june 1989 , when she was still a teenager in college and roger was 24 , a tuba player for the detroit symphony orchestra . they had a son six years later and a daughter a few years after that . in 2010 , when anna first began to fall in love with d . j . , she and her family were living in a modest house in west orange , n . j .
“i remember thinking that , as a straight man , the thought of walking down the street with someone i love and not holding their hand or be able to link arms or feel easy about putting my arm around them — i can’t even imagine how that feels , ” molina says . “so to be able to live with that and still be able to make a relationship work and still have value and meaning is extraordinary to me . ”
given the strange tension in the room , i felt it necessary to break the ice and mention to him that i was a big fan and , in fact , a little nervous . he said , “don’t be” and jumped off the edge of the couch , placing himself on the seat , removing his slippers , and stretching his legs out across the table in front of me—gyrating and rubbing his socked feet mere centimeters from my knees as he glared . after a minute or two of fumbling with my iphone recorder , i finally managed to start the interview .
love is strange takes its tempo from the chopin and beethoven piano music that we hear unobtrusively on the soundtrack . there are very few big climactic moments . the most dramatic event in the movie isn ' t even shown on screen . instead , sachs concentrates on the everyday problems that his characters face . when they sell the apartment they can no longer afford , ben and george are forced to live separately while they look for somewhere else . george stays with neighbours while ben moves in with his nephew elliot ( darren burrows ) , elliot ' s kind - hearted novelist wife , kate ( marisa tomei ) , and their teenage son joey ( charlie tahan ) . it seems like the perfect arrangement… for about three days , until benjamin franklin ' s fish problem begins to apply . ben ' s presence in an already cramped apartment quickly irks his new hosts . he himself is uncomfortable . as he puts it ,
sometimes , when you live with people , you know them better than you care to .
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the people in
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who take in ben and george experience that upsetting truth . ben crashes with his nephew elliott ( darren e . burrows ) , an busy video producer who is rarely home , and his wife , kate ( marisa tomei ) , a novelist struggling with her next book . they have an awkward teenage son named joey ( charlie tahan ) who only has one friend , a swaggering russian kid named vlad ( eric tabach ) . ben is removed from his familiar environment , his partner and his cherished routines , and starts to deteriorate . george has a little bit more emotional resilience , but he begins to fall apart too , staying with a much - younger gay couple ( cheyenne jackson and manny perez ) who both work for the nypd . george tries to sleep on the couch in a party house atmosphere , with
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american director ira sachs ' work is clearly a movie made for devotees of reflective film and not mainstream box office . sachs also co - produced and writes this account of disparate relationships . the fabricated arrangement gives way to some admittedly contrived situations manufactured in the interest of extracting a reaction . alfred molina and john lithgow are extraordinarily good as the displaced couple . they lend a gravity to their characters that raise this chronicle to a higher level . despite the narrative ' s handling of the hot button topic of same sex marriage , the real story exploits genuine emotion as it deals with the many - sided personalities in an extended family . this is a subtle production that has universal appeal . whether they ' re singing at a piano to guests at a party or reflecting on what has become of their lives in separate bunk beds , molina and lithgow give nuanced performances . yet the script accomplishes so much more . love is strange is a well written drama that beautifully handles the observational insights of a family tree and the way a simple crisis affects its many branches . urltoken
but when george climbs into bed with ben midway through the film and the two characters just hold each other , with all the comfort and feeling of men who have been in love for 40 years , it was a portrayal of a gay relationship that i don’t think i had ever seen before on screen . i can’t think of another example of older , settled gay film characters long into their lives that young gay people could look at and think , “one day i hope that my partner and i will be like that , like them . ”
later that afternoon , i met a 20 - year - old man named john who had a prominent underbite . john had been assessed as having the mental capacity of a 3 - year - old , but using f . c . he could write poetry . his father handed me some printouts of john’s writing ( ‘‘the place to discover the ember of love is worlds away but so close / in the land of the nonverbal autistic’’ ) , then grabbed john’s finger so we could have a direct exchange . ‘‘know that we are intelligent , ’’ john’s finger typed into the keyboard .
what is even more disquieting for each is the revelation that , agonising though the situation is , it can work – after a fashion . they can get by . their love is real enough , but they can function as individuals , as single people . it is as if they are young again – messy and troublesome kids living with their parents , meeting up for dates and illicit sex , yet what they are concealing is not their sexuality but the fear of disaster , the fear of ending their days in poverty and failure , with the relationship that they thought was the bedrock of their existence shattered , almost casually .
“you look at a couple like that and realize that they’d been together for maybe 40 or 50 years in a society that regards them as second - class citizens , ” lithgow says . “and in order for them to stay together , just be with the person they love , they’ve had to more or less live with that and accept it , and be grateful for what they get in return , which is intimacy with each other . ” lithgow’s next observation is one that had a shattering effect on both actors : “but , if they walk down the street with each other , they don’t touch . they don’t hold hands . ”
they went back and forth on this question . ‘‘he grilled me on how much i really loved him , how committed i was to him , how i felt about my husband , ’’ anna wrote in an account of their relationship that she compiled six months later at her lawyer’s request . d . j . wanted to know if she would someday marry him . ‘‘i said : ‘please , i love you very much , but please don’t ask me that just now . i need time to think through everything . ’ he said that he was sorry . he didn’t mean to push that hard . it was childish of him . ’’
when she arrived at the house on memorial day in 2011 , anna didn’t know what d . j . planned to do . his brother , wesley , was working in the garden , so she went straight inside to speak with d . j . and his mother , p . they chatted for a while at the dining table about d . j . ’s plans for school and for getting his own apartment . then there was a lull in the conversation after wesley came back in , and anna took hold of d . j . ’s hand . ‘‘we have something to tell you , ’’ they announced at last . ‘‘we’re in love . ’’
all the guests had themselves made a kind of commitment : to redouble their friendship and love for the happy couple . but no one could have imagined how soon they would be expected to redeem this pledge . george is fired from his job by church authorities who disapprove of the gay wedding , though they were happy enough with the deniable hypocrisy of his merely having a roommate . unable to meet their mortgage payments , these two men suffer an unthinkable catastrophe : in what they imagined to be the comfortable evening of their lives , they become homeless refugees , having to split up temporarily and live separately with two sets of friends who , with strained generosity , take them in .
anna has never wavered in her claim that she and d . j . fell in love and that his messages were his . even after she was indicted , she seemed more concerned about his fate than her own . ‘‘in the spring of 2011 , [ d . j . ’s ] access to his means of communication was taken from him , ’’ she wrote in a chapter for a recent academic book , which was published while the justice system creaked its way toward trial , ‘‘and he is once again treated as severely intellectually impaired by those who have control over his life . this chapter is dedicated to him , in hope that he will one day regain his voice and his freedom . ’’
love is strange should have been better than it is . interesting story and premise , but something was left out . don ' t know if scenes were cut out or maybe never even filmed , but it ' s quite disappointing and it could have been so good . acting is above par for the most part , especially marisa tomei . two two lead actors couldn ' t have been better , but they weren ' t given much to work with . fair cinematography and editing and the music score score was a nice touch and fit well with the malina character , him being a music instructor . what doesn ' t ring true is that they had to separate by living in different places . very phone in that respect . the two gay cops were not necessary and their parties they threw were more for college co - eds than grown adults . did not make sense . more annoying was the accent on the nephew . the whole ending centered around him which was ludicrous . a very serious mistake was when the nephew was waiting for ben to come home . he ' s waiting in front of the apartment with nothing but his skateboard in hand . once they get into the apartment and talk for a few minutes , the nephew hands him a large paper painting ! ! how in the hell did the painting get into the apartment as the kid only had his skateboard . didn ' t the writers , director , the camera people , the crew or even the actors question this huge mistake ? ? then again , the boy leaves and the camera stays on him a good couple of minutes as he cries ! ! fair first act and very poor second act and ending .
but the family had had enough . what at first struck them as a miracle — a voice for d . j . , his inner self revealed — now seemed a fraud . d . j . could not have given his consent to any love affair , they later told the authorities , because he suffers from profound mental disabilities , just as the psychologists had always told them . his ‘‘messages’’ must have been a sham . if anna pretended otherwise , it was only so she could use d . j . as a guinea pig for research , or to further her career , or because , as wesley would later say during the three - week trial for sexual assault that concluded this month in newark , ‘‘she was having some sick , twisted fantasy . ’’
in spite of being set largely in cramped city apartments and having little in the way of obvious dramatic action , the film never feels stilted or stagy . like the music pieces that george so admires , it strikes its own graceful and quietly insistent rhythm . sachs is dealing with pivotal moments in his characters ' lives : love , marriage , illness and enforced separation . it portrays new york in a double - edged fashion . at one stage , we see it from ben ' s point of view as he paints from a rooftop at dusk . it looks quite magical , a city for romance , but if you can ' t find a place with a controlled rent or you ' re a guest outstaying a welcome or your health is failing , it can be a very brutal place indeed .


with a budget of only $ 4,500 , this film has won awards at several international film festivals including the austin film festival , one of the top 10 u.s. film festivals .

curiously , the film features a sequence shot of 33 minutes , the longest in the history of spanish cinema .

according to the directors , the actors needed psychological help during the filming because of the difficulty of the scenes .

maría del barrio is the nineteen-year-old actress chosen to play the role of myna , whose performance has been praised and won awards from several international film festivals including the austin film festival and the naperville independent film festival .

in 2011 the film was released in theaters in the united states which include the cities of minneapolis , los angeles , st. louis , phoenix , houston , san francisco , dallas , seattle , miami , denver , new york , y palm beach ,

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myna has gone ( in spanish myna se va ) is a spanish film directed by sonia escolano and sadrac gonzález . it is a naturalistic , independent film and is played by unknown actors .
trailer 2 from feature film myna has gone written and directed by sonia escolano and sadrac gonzalez . produced by javier albarracin . lukantum pictures , spain .
a famous director once said to us during an opening in the us of myna has gone over a year ago : “myna has gone is a great actors’ movie , but you have to prove you are economically viable , that you’re capable of making a commercial film , but which is also good . not just some empty shell ; there are far too many of those around as it is . ”
myna is a young illegal immigrant woman from an eastern country that is at war . she works as a home assistant for a marriage and their small son . when the parents go on a trip , myna has to shoulder all the responsibility for the household and the child since the marriage have trust in myna . however , one night , the child has an accident and myna , who knows that she can be deported if she goes to the hospital , decides to help the child in underground ways .
myna is a young illegal immigrant woman from an eastern country that is at war . she works as a home assistant for a marriage and their small son . when the parents go on a trip , myna has to . . . see full summary »
myna is a young illegal inmigrant woman from an eastern country that is at war . she works as a home assistant for a marriage and their small son . when the parents go on a trip , myna has to shoulder all the responsibility for the household and the child since the couple have left their trust in myna . however , one night , the child has an accident and myna , who knows that she can be deported if she goes to the hospital , decides to help the child in underground ways .
we had been planning on doing something big on a small scale for quite some time . it has been two years since our debut feature film myna has gone received numerous accolades , winning a number of film festivals and garnering much praise from critics worldwide , and we achieved all this with almost no budget ( 3000 euros ) . we live in a big world full
myna has gone was always a cinematic venture that went beyond aesthetics and the mundane . it was intended to be an auteur piece , but the real challenge with the vampire in the hole was to make a movie that had no budget , yet had commercial aspirations ; something that was both visually interesting and artistic . could we achieve something like that with no money ?
vampirism is a newly discovered viral illness whose initial stages spread as quickly as the flu . may has just turned seventeen and has become infected . she is the only vampire in her family and her neighborhood and , as such , her life changes dramatically . in her daily surroundings she is now seen as a monster : kids throw stones at her and
with a budget of only $ 4 , 500 , this film has won awards at several international film festivals including the austin film festival , one of the top 10 u . s . film festivals .
i was there with myna in a city of the spanish coast , myna , a young illegal immigrant from an eastern europe country in the war , is looking after a child , pablo , in the absence of his parents . a moment of inattention causes little pablo a domestic accident and takes a blow in his head . myna , alone at home , is afraid of being deported if she takes the child to the hospital and this leads her into a spiral of desperate measures on a night that will bring her down to the darkest forests of the human soul . the camera will be our guide on this oppressive trip , sometimes claustrophobic , and so intense that at certain moments of the film we have the impression of living the situation in our own flesh . actors are in state of grace and they give us such a natural acting that we sometimes doubt whether everything is happening for real , there , in front of us . note that in the projections that were made several people felt unwell and left the theater . young myna and her red hood represent the innocence of the most vulnerable in society in a film that envelops the viewer with a thick blanket of harsh , hurtful images and rough texture . we witness how the choices of the young girl break down along the way until the end , where a wolf in a white coat will offer his help . . . for a price . the extremely long shots of the film illustrate the anxiety of the protagonist to find someone to help her and escape suspicion . as viewers we behold with concern the steps given by myna ; silences are long and introspective ; off - camera shots reach a visceral tension ; all until a dramatic thirty - seven - minutes - sequence - shot when humanity is shown as it is : the hunter and the prey , the power of the strongest and the despair of a victim who can not see that she has already been hunted .
it has been very hard , but we would be hypocritical not to admit that it’s also been a great roller - coaster ride . after over a month’s shooting and 6 months post - production , the vampire in the hole is finished and now it’s up to the audience to decide whether or not we are ready , to decide if we can carry on , if we deserve a chance , and more importantly , if we have succeeded .
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of talented people , but that talent is scattered about . all we did was think about how we could join forces with as many talented people in their respective fields as possible . this is how our second project came about ; by posting an ad on the internet . in just 24 hours we received over 1000 cvs . “this is a sign” , we thought .
so we decided to take those thousand cvs and make the film with them .
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we also realized from the start that our film would need a considerable amount of digital effects and the incorporation of 3d ; that the perfect balance lay in knowing where the limit was between its visual quality and the story we wanted to tell . we needed an original score that recreated the mood of the film and depicted the characters , which of course , along with the special effects , was the hardest part to get for free . in addition , we needed a commercial photo of the vampire genre , as well as a good sound design on a par with the photography and a very specific make - up for the vampire element of the story . and finally , a script in english , to prove that we could direct an international cast in this language , and what’s more , actors who are just as skilled as any established star .
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