Love Is Strange
by Ira Sachs
Official selection 2014
Official synopsis
George and Ben celebrate their marriage after forty years together. The euphoria quickly disappears. Teacher in a Catholic school, George is laid off and has to break up with Ben after the sale of their apartment. A comedy drama with a great tenderness that heals the wounds left by Blue Is the Warmest Color and illustrate perfectly the words of Alain Badiou: "The triumph of love is not in the beginning, but in its duration. "
Biography and Filmography
Born in 1965 in Memphis, Tennessee, Ira Sachs is a professor at the University of New York. He is also the co-founder and programmer of Queer/Art/Film at IFC in New York. His first feature film, Delta (1996), was selected at the Toronto Film Festival. He won the Grand Prix at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 with Forty Shades of Blue and the Teddy Bear for the best queer film at the Berlin film festival in 2012 with Keep the Lights On. Love is strange, his fifth feature, was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.
by Ira Sachs
Born in 1965 in Memphis, Tennessee, Ira Sachs is a professor at the University of New York. He is also the co-founder and programmer of Queer/Art/Film at IFC in New York. His first feature film, Delta (1996), was selected at the Toronto Film Festival. He won the Grand Prix at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 with Forty Shades of Blue and the Teddy Bear for the best queer film at the Berlin film festival in 2012 with Keep the Lights On. Love is strange, his fifth feature, was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.