After Louie
Sam is a New York artist and former AIDS activist who is disillusioned with the world around him. While dredging up buried memories and resentments to make a film about a friend he lost to AIDS, 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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3 October 1949, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
27 January 1965, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
18 August 1966, London, England, UK
27 June 1963, Edgewood, Maryland, USA
19 April 1948, Syracuse, New York, USA
27 December 1973, Brooklyn, New York, USA
26 October 1960, Brooklyn, New York, USA
9 January 1989, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
July 26, 2017
While After Louie might not always approach its content in a subtle way, the film's passion, insights and feeling frequently hit home regardless.
March 28, 2018
Its subject matter is interesting, and it's right to remind viewers of the need for different generations of queer people to communicate, but After Louie is burdened by narrative and dialogue clichés that undermine its emotional appeal.
March 27, 2018
Even though the film has a plodding pace there are flashes of honesty and brilliance that make this film worth a passive look.
June 29, 2017
Sam isn't particularly likable, but Cumming plays him with great empathy, finding a broken, complicated man beneath the abrasive surface.
March 27, 2018
As an actor, [Zachary] Booth can't quite keep up with [Alan] Cumming, but Braeden is likable in ways that the cynical Sam is not, so it evens out in the end.
March 29, 2018
Some stronger filmmaking would be welcome, sure, but "After Louie" has an honesty that's often just as valuable.
September 21, 2017
... a valuable meditation on generational differences, particularly between gay men who lived through the worst years of the AIDS crisis and those who came of age afterward.
December 19, 2017
But the film is overstuffed with messages that, while important, are imparted in a didactic fashion. At least Cumming's poignant turn as Sam helps the film over its rough moments.
March 28, 2018
Cumming is spectacular.
June 26, 2017
While it's well-intentioned to a fault, and driven by deep convictions, the film also is diffuse, lethargically paced and short on thematic trenchancy, building powerful individual moments but seldom sustaining a compelling narrative thread.
