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After Louie Trailer – Alan Cumming gets an unexpected younger lover in the gay-themed movie

June 20, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

We really liked After Louie when we caught it a few months ago at the BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival. Now a trailer for the movie has arrived, so you can get a better taste for the film.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘After Louie follows Sam (Alan Cumming), an artist and activist from ACT UP who lived through the early years of HIV/AIDS — a man scarred and still struggling with survivor’s guilt. Cemented into an oppressive past, he is bewildered by a younger generation of carefree gay men with their uninhibited use of social media, sexting, and seeming political indifference. But when he meets the seductive young Braeden (Zachary Booth) at a bar late one night, their pants quickly come down and, eventually, so does Sam’s ossified guard. As the pair become increasingly intimate, an intergenerational relationship blossoms between them-one capable of reawakening Sam’s artistic soul and reviving his wilted heart.’

You can read our full review of After Louie here. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Alan Cumming, Patrick Breen, Sarita Choudhury, Wilson Cruz, Zachary Booth DIRECTORS: Vincent Gagliostro

After Louie (BFI Flare Review) – AIDS, generational changes, gay life & Alan Cumming

March 21, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Alan Cumming, Patrick Breen, Sarita Choudhury, Wilson Cruz, Zachary Booth
Director: Vincent Gagliostro
Running Time: 100 mins
Certificate: NR

After Louie is one of the higher profile titles at this year’s BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival – largely because it stars Alan Cumming. He plays Sam, an artist working on a documentary about his friend, William, who died during the AIDS crisis. However, he discovers that few people are that interested in his project.

He meets the much younger Braeden (Zachary Booth), initially assuming the young man must be a rent boy, and so pays him for sex. Braeden also has a boyfriend, but starts to see more of Sam. They start to challenge each other’s assumption, with Sam angry that the younger generation don’t seem to care about the AIDS crisis and the battle against heteronormative culture he and his friends engaged in. Braeden meanwhile shows him that his generation have a very different experience of the world – and HIV – and that while Sam’s generation’s battles helped pave the way for that, it’s impossible for younger people to truly comprehend what it was like to watch so many people die amidst a society that didn’t care and in many cases attacked them. [Read more…]

Alan Cumming to Star in New LGBT Film, After Louie, Which Is Looking For Your Help

May 8, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It’s been announced that bisexual actor and Tony winner Alan Cumming is attached to star in a new LGBT-themed movie from lifelong activist and artist, Vincent Gagliostro, who has been sited by New York Magazine as one of the six most influential players in the gay community during the 80s and 90s AIDS crisis.

However, to get it to the screen it needs your help, as a Kickstarter is now running through June 2nd, in the hope of raising $72,500. After Louie explores the contradictions of modern gay life and history through Sam (Cumming), a man desperate to understand how he and his community got to where they are today. The movie also Justin Vivian Bond (Shortbus, Kiki and Herb: Live at the Knitting Factory), Zachary Booth (Damages, Keep The Lights On), David Drake (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me), and NYC icon, Joey Arias.

Many important figure-heads in the NYC artistic community are speaking up for the film, including author and playwright, Larry Kramer who says, “this move needs to be made.” Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Michael Cunningham comments, “Vincent Gagliostro is not only enormously gifted, he’s also been a radical, fearless and compassionate voice for decades, speaking for countless people whose stories would otherwise go undeard.”

Here’s the synopsis: ‘After Louie explores the contradictions of modern gay life and history through Sam (ALAN CUMMING), a man desperate to understand how he and his community got to where they are today. As an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, Sam witnessed the deaths of too many friends and lovers. Battle-wounded and struggling with survivor’s guilt, Sam now resents the complacency of his former comrades and derides what he sees as the younger generation’s indifference to the politics of sex, and of death.

‘An unexpected intimacy with a much younger man, Braeden (ZACHARY BOOTH), challenges Sam’s understanding of contemporary gay life. Through this unconventional romance, he is forced to deal with the trauma that so informs his past, their present, and an unknown future.’

Vincent Gagliostro comments, “My film After Louie is a portrait of what happened to us — the generation who endured the AIDS epidemic, a generation whose shared history continues to haunt us. In confronting the end of a traumatic era and provoking a conversation between generations, I dare us to dream of a new and vibrant future, again. After Louie will be a testament to the joys of the fully lived life and the inseparability of art and living.”

If you want to help get the movie made, watch the crowdfunding video below and then head over to Kickstarter. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Alan Cumming, Zachary Booth DIRECTORS: Vincent Gagliostro