'Keep the Lights On': A stormy New York tale of love and addiction ★★★

There's a nerve-racking sequence set in the late 1990s in co-writer and director Ira Sachs' "Keep the Lights On" when Erik, the Danish expatriate filmmaker living in Manhattan played by Thure Lindhardt, is on the telephone, trying to extract information from his doctor regarding the results of an HIV blood test.

Michael Phillips

October 26, 2012