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Après Louie

Original title: After Louie
  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
491
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Après Louie (2017)
While dredging up buried memories and resentments to make a film about a deceased friend, Sam gets caught up in a relationship with Braeden. At first critical of the young man for his generation's failure to appreciate how easy they have it, Sam slowly realizes that he has much to learn about what gay life is like today.
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After Louie explores the contradictions of modern gay life and history through Sam, a man desperate to understand how he and his community got to where they are today.After Louie explores the contradictions of modern gay life and history through Sam, a man desperate to understand how he and his community got to where they are today.After Louie explores the contradictions of modern gay life and history through Sam, a man desperate to understand how he and his community got to where they are today.

  • Director
    • Vincent Gagliostro
  • Writers
    • Vincent Gagliostro
    • Anthony Johnston
  • Stars
    • Alan Cumming
    • Zachary Booth
    • Sarita Choudhury
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    491
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Vincent Gagliostro
    • Writers
      • Vincent Gagliostro
      • Anthony Johnston
    • Stars
      • Alan Cumming
      • Zachary Booth
      • Sarita Choudhury
    • 9User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
    • 57Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Alan Cumming
    Alan Cumming
    • Sam Cooper
    Zachary Booth
    Zachary Booth
    • Braeden Devries
    Sarita Choudhury
    Sarita Choudhury
    • Maggie
    Patrick Breen
    Patrick Breen
    • Jeffrey
    Wilson Cruz
    Wilson Cruz
    • Mateo
    Everett Quinton
    Everett Quinton
    • Julian
    Anthony Johnston
    • Lukas
    David Drake
    • William Wilson
    Mx Justin Vivian Bond
    Mx Justin Vivian Bond
    • Rhona
    • (as Justin Bond)
    Joey Arias
    Joey Arias
    • Jai
    • (as Joseph Arias)
    Lucas Caleb Rooney
    • Mark
    John Thomas Waite
    John Thomas Waite
    • Patrick
    Eric Berryman
    Eric Berryman
    • DB
    Samira Benkhallouk
    • Emma
    Natalie Woolams-Torres
    Natalie Woolams-Torres
    • Lucy (Bride-to-Be)
    Jessie Komitor
    Jessie Komitor
    • Melanie (Maid of Honor)
    Jason Michael Butler
    • Stranger on street
    Pedro Saint Morillo
    Pedro Saint Morillo
    • Hustler
    • (as Pedro Morillo Jr.)
    • Director
      • Vincent Gagliostro
    • Writers
      • Vincent Gagliostro
      • Anthony Johnston
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    3jaronb94

    Not Saved by the Acting

    With fine actors including Alan Cumming, Zachary Booth, and Wilson Cruz participating, I expected a far better film. This is the director's first feature, and it shows. By turns maudlin, self-congratulatory and incoherent, the story purports to be an examination of how an aging gay man - who lived through the worst years of AIDS - now finds himself in a time in which his activism is under-appreciated. Unfortunately, as written, the protagonist (Sam) is self-absorbed and unlikable, a privileged New York artist who treats the hustlers he hires badly and who whines relentlessly to others that, for some reason, put up with him. He is, essentially, a narcissist that the filmmakers present as if he were sympathetic.

    The conceit of the film is that Sam is not afforded by young, cute gay guys the respect and honor he deserves for having lost friends and loved ones in the eighties and for having participated in Act Up in the nineties. As a survivor of those times myself, I appreciate the work of activists, but I fully understand that what they accomplished should be gratification enough. Of course younger gay men can't understand what Sam went through. The whole point was to work toward a future when they wouldn't have to.

    Sam is stuck in the past, as is the film. The protagonist seems to learn nothing, and watching his journey becomes increasingly frustrating.

    One final point (and this truly bothered me): throughout the film, Sam voices particular venom toward the few non-white characters - a latino hustler he stiffs, a black artist who has replaced him in popularity, and the latino boyfriend of an old friend who the friend wishes to marry. This isn't quibbling; his behavior is pronounced and consistent, leaving the impression that, in his mostly-white world, people of color are people to be disparaged.
    10apeneva

    Why is this so underrated and unpopular?

    This is a pretty great A-list movie that in my opinion is super underrated. Seems like it didn't get any publicity AT ALL. I wonder why... Well, it's a simple story, a character study, but it I loved it. It has beautiful cinematography, very believable acting and it made me feel for the main character. And Zachary Booth is such a sweetheart... Nostalgic and very human and relatable, not just if you're a gay man. It makes you think about the meaning of life and death, relationships with your friends, growing older etc. Highly recommened if love a good moody film.
    10pik923

    A solid film - well worth watching, and not just once

    I'm always on the look out for films that deal with the subject of AIDS - not only as a teacher of film, but someone who remembers how the island city of Key West was devastated - almost 20% of the population died of AIDS, and what Bailey House meant to New York in the 80s and 90s, and how the Republican Party who ruled the White House and the congress did nothing until the late great Elizabeth Taylor kicked Ronnie in the butt....but let's get back to the film - it's an important film - well acted - good solid cast - truthful in its portrayal of male gay life, a good script, and an interesting slow build up - this is not an action film folks so for those of you who are addicted to comic books on screen - wake up - film making is also an art - and this film is just that - it's art. Congratulations to everyone associated with the film. And sorry that so many of the main stream media types of reviewers were so ignorant and stunted. This film should be on the INTERNATIONAL AIDS DAY list of films to be screened all around the globe.
    5euroGary

    Saved by the acting

    Sam (Alan Cumming) is a self-centred artist working on a video tribute to a friend long-dead of AIDS. Sam's homosexuality is very political: a veteran of the gay rights protests and anti-bigotry campaigns of decades ago, he embraces the self-imposed outsider, 'rage against the machine' status it affords him, as witnessed by his tirade against a gay couple who marry. But it's not all politics: one night he takes home a young man (Zachary Booth) he meets in a bar. Their relationship is the hook on which the film hangs a wider examination of Sam's life.

    So far, so talky American gay movie. What saves the film is the acting. I agree with Samuel L Jackson - why hire a Briton to play an American - were all the American actors busy? But there is no doubt Cumming is good in this, eschewing the queenliness he sometimes uses and instead delivering a character who is a strong, opinionated, not-particularly-likable ordinary guy. As for Booth, while he has the looks of a vapid Valley boy, he turns in a natural, realistic performance as the younger man intrigued by the older man, but not blinkered to the latter's faults. Amongst the supporting roles, Everett Quinton has fun as the ageing, gently flamboyant queen who is the oldest of the circle of friends.

    So full marks for the acting, but considerably fewer for originality.
    10mokegent-33546

    Slow, but real...

    It's a slow movie but a real movie... You can actually think this could be your story... or life or... :)

    It's realistic, and its like you are looking into somebody his life trough a window...

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      When Sam is writing on the memorial wall, he writes "the sexy boy from that...". Later it shows the entire wall several times, and that phrase is nowhere to be seen.

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    • Release date
      • March 30, 2018 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
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      • After Louie
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
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      1 hour 40 minutes
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      • 2.35 : 1

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