![]() Instead, it’s about being old and in love and gay.Īnd it’s about gay marriage. Love Is Strange isn’t just about being old and in love, which is plenty of fodder for a well-made film. I’m fairly sure most people – certainly those who’ve suffered from the many degradations of that “human condition” – will agree. Without hyperbole, I tell you that Love Is Strange is the stuff of Jean-Luc Godard ( Notre Musique and In Praise of Love), Vittorio De Sica ( Umberto D.), Woody Allen ( Crimes and Misdemeanors), and Ingmar Bergman’s reflection on the ironic circumstances we find ourselves in as we age (in his ever resonant Wild Strawberries).Ĭlearly, Bergman is a deeply planted influence on Sachs. ![]() I love what it has to say and I love that it’s something seldom said. ![]() But despite its willingness to gild the lily for the love of aesthetic, ethereal beauty in all its forms, Love Is Strange is also a film that reaches for the truth – the deepest truths of what we often call “the human condition.”įor all these reasons I love Ira Sachs’ movie as much as it wishes we would love each other. Love Is Strange is beautiful in every way that a film can be beautiful, and unabashedly so.
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