Love Is Strange (2014 Ira Sachs)

Not the romcom we were expecting, quiet, thoughtful film concerns married couple John Lithgow and Alfred Molina's attempts to find a NY apartment, having to live separately, Alfred with some party-going cops and John with his nephew and niece and their son, none of whom are getting on very well. Then there's some Chopin... The film really works at the end, with the bar scene between the two, and the scene in which the kid Charlie Tahan has a moment on the stairs... Then there's some Chopin. I kept thinking certain shots would be the end of the film, but then there was more Chopin...

Marisa Tomei, Cheyenne Jackson, Christian Coulson.

Written by Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias.