Love Is Strange (2014)

The premise of director Ira Sachs’ latest film, which he co-wrote with Mauricio Zacharias, has a ripped-from-the-headlines feel. After 39 years together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) get married, and as a result George gets fired from his job teaching music at a Catholic school. But that’s not even the biggest outrage: this loss of income forces the two to sell their light-filled New York co-op, turning them temporarily homeless and utterly dependent on relatives and friends for accommodation. Read the full review here.