Light Up

In New York in 1998, documentary director Eric (played by Thure Lindhardt) met closeted lawyer Paul (played by Zachary Booth) in a one-night stand. The two people who had a good relationship with each other finally officially dated, thus starting a long-distance love affair that lasted for ten years. When Eric discovered that Paul had a habit of using drugs, he did not reject it and occasionally enjoyed it together. However, Paul's drug addiction gradually developed out of control. When Eric's documentary won an international award but could not find a lover to share it with, and when he saw his boyfriend drowned in drugs and male prostitutes in the hotel, Eric painfully realized that his love for Paul was as sinking and helpless as drug addiction. Every quarrel, every compromise, every pull is overdrafting and hurting the other person, until forgiveness can no longer stop the tears... "Light Up" won the title of the saddest love movie of the year, was shortlisted for the main competition of Sundance, and won the Teddy Bear Award at the 62nd Berlin Film Festival. The movie is like a sentimental scroll or a love letter of laughter and forgetfulness, delicately and truly depicting the sweetness and pain of the gay world. Director Ira Sacks won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for "Forty Shades of Blue." this