Directed by Ira Sachs, and written by Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias, Keep the Lights On is a pseudo-serious gay romantic melodrama, with some good moments, and many more bad ones.
Grade: B (*** out of *****)
The feature stars Thure Lindhardt as Erik, a Danish filmmaker in New York working on a documentary about the artist Avery Willard.
World premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Fest, the film was released by Music Box Films.
He enters into a loving but complicated relationship with Paul (Zachary Booth), a lawyer in the publishing industry who struggles with drug addiction
The film is based on Sachs’ own relationship with Bill Clegg, a literary agent who published in 2010 A memoir about his struggles with addiction, titled Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man.