Keep the Lights On

About Keep the Lights On

In 1997 New York City, filmmaker Erik bonds with closeted lawyer Paul after a one-night fling. As their relationship evolves through dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries while being true to himself.

Ira Sachs's Keep the Lights On is a 2012 romance film. Its themes are semi autobiographical, documentary filmmaking, sex worker, and HIV.

Thure Lindhardt stars as Erik Rothman, Zachary Booth as Paul Lucy, Julianne Nicholson as Claire, and Souléymane Sy Savané as Alassane. At 102 minutes long, it arrived in July 2012.

The screenplay is by Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias. It streams on Metrograph, MUBI, and OVID in the United States.

Bohemian Rhapsody, Philadelphia, and Aftersun make useful companions to Keep the Lights On, all filed under gay theme and LGBT. TMDB voters put it at 5.7 out of 10 across 105 votes and it carries a NR rating.