State law, at long last, has caught up with the reality of their relationship: The first scenes in Ira Sachs’s “Love Is Strange” take place on the morning of George and Ben’s marriage, which is solemnized in an alfresco ceremony followed by a relaxed and lively party at home.īut the couple’s bliss is disrupted by bigotry that is at once unexpected and sadly unsurprising. From the first moments we see them together - waking, washing and dressing in the Manhattan apartment they have shared for decades - it is clear that Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) are a walking illustration of the phrase “old married couple.” They know each other so well and have adapted, graciously and sometimes a little fractiously, to each other’s peculiarities.
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