Watching this quietly beguiling tale of an ageing gay couple who have been together for decades, I was reminded not only of the films of Yasujirô Ozu, Woody Allen and Maurice Pialat (the declared touchstones of director Ira Sachs and his co-writer, Mauricio Zacharias), but also of Sam Mendes’s underappreciated Away We Go, in which parents-to-be John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph visit their variously fractured friends and relations, discovering en route that the only certainty in life is each other. Rarer is the movie that has at its heart a stable relationship, in which the world itself may be out of sorts but the lovers themselves are constant. F or obvious reasons, films about love often focus either on the first flush of passion or the dying embers of tenderness and toleration.
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