Protraph Lack of good storyline.

PodBill Just what I expected

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

ilustra-neuropixel It is not the best film I ever saw. And of course, this is a matter of subjectivity whether what I see is a best or a worst but quality is quality and a good story is what makes a good movie most of the time. But I know I cried and I laughed with the story. I know I felt things that not often I was to feel watching a movie. I felt like I was reading a very good book with strong characters, a story with simple but real plots. A story that makes the mind floating along with and taking me to this journey that I felt I need to see the end of. And then again, the story was not strong. My guess is that the characters make the story. The characters took me alongside the story, with them through the entire movie. So... what makes this movie not so good in the end? This is something to be answered and discovered and discussed... and not something to exist as a criticism because if I felt joy and sadness watching this movie that means that, as it is, bad or good... this movie gives us an experience not many movies has to give. I say 'not many' because I don't know if there is another movie out there to deliver what this movie delivers. I tend to think that it might be the only movie to give such a fine experience of love, truth and music. Ten starts for not such a good movie; that is for the use of music.I know this much: if a movie combines the language of music in fine quality with the images then that is a movie to be seen.

meeza Writer-Director Ira Sachs' romantic comedy indie flick "Love is Strange" has strange highs and strange lows; StrangeLove that is how this movie goes, will you see it for me; will you take the puns I will give to you, again and again, and will you pun return it. Sorry, got a bit in a Depeched mode with that intro of "Love is Strange". OK, now I am seriously getting behind the wheel in writing my review of the film. It stars John Lithgow as Ben Hull, and Alfred Molina as George Garea; they are a longtime New York gay couple who recently married. However, turbulent times arrive when George is dismissed in his position as a Music Teacher in a Catholic School when the archdiocese finds out of his sexuality & marital status. Ben and George are forced to live apart. Ben with his nephew Elliot and his family, wife Kate and son Joey. George with his gay cop friend Roberto and Roberto's partner Ted. They both discover that living with others is strangely disconcerting and of course miss each other's constant time together. Sachs' shot most of the film in Sachs' 5th Avenue in New York; OK, maybe not but he did not exactly pace the film with an authentic continuity and pacing in his semi-mundane directorial street of "Love is Strange". However, his screenplay, co-scribed with Mauricio Zacharias had its clever verbal moments. Seasoned thespian pros Lithgow and Molina effectively delivered their performances, and there was also a fine performance from another seasoned female thespian named Marisa Tomei as Kate. "Love is Strange" is actually not too strange, but not too great, but then again no reason to hate. *** Average

Dunroman It's quite a long time since seeing a film so evidently intended for the thinking and a film so much of its age.While it might be easy to categorise this as a film about Gay Love, Marriage and the consequences, that would be a serious mistake as those themes are almost incidental, the important themes are much wider, the circularity of life and love, growing up, family and generations.What was interesting to me was what was NOT said or shown, like a good book you need to read between the lines.Finally a word about the score - sumptuous.Any lover of Chopin will feel the hair on the back of their necks, particularly at the final Berceuse with orchestral arrangement, which flows like the ripple of evening waves up and down a deserted beach - music at its most ...musical.

evanston_dad A modern day version of the 1937 Leo McCarey film "Make Way for Tomorrow," with a gay married couple in place of the elderly husband and wife who served as the focus of the earlier film. "Love Is Strange" has two wonderful actors at its center -- John Lithgow and Alfred Molina -- but they're not convincing as a gay couple, coming across instead like old college buddies crashing with one another. The film is too morose and dreary by far -- the saving grace of McCarey's film is the final third, when the elderly parents embark on one final day of being together before being separated indefinitely (perhaps forever), and they open a window for the viewer on to the rich history they share and which their selfish children have no knowledge of. The film is still tragic, but the tragedy is tempered a bit by the fact that these two people have enjoyed a life together and built a world of memories with each other that no one can take from them. No such message is conveyed in "Love Is Strange"; the result is more depressing than it is bittersweet."Love Is Strange" is yet one more cautionary tale for those who want to remake classics. Don't bother if you're going to make a film that is inferior in every way to the original.Grade: B-