Love Is Strange (opens in Cleveland September 19th exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre)

[LOVE IS STRANGE opens in Cleveland on Friday September 19th exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre.]

Review by Pamela Zoslov

Two films, made decades apart and both starring the superb Alfred Molina, provide a pair of historical bookends of gay acceptance. The 1987 PRICK UP YOUR EARS, in which Molina played Ken Halliwell, the man who bludgeoned to death his lover, playwright Joe Orton, dramatized the gay demimonde of 1950s-'60s London, where homosexuality was illegal and men coupled furtively in public toilets and back alleys. By the time of Ira Sachs' LOVE IS STRANGE, gay marriage is legal in England and Wales and in 19 U.S. states. Enormous strides, but as the film's story demonstrates, much work still needs to be done.