I Want Your Love is not a film about sex. It is a film about the space between sex—the moments after, the days before, and the love that lingers in the silence when no one is performing. That is far more uncomfortable, and far more beautiful, than any explicit act.
Strip away the explicit content, and I Want Your Love is one of the saddest films of its decade. San Francisco—post-Prop 8, post-gentrification, pre-marriage equality—is shot as a city of soft, gray light and empty streets. The Castro is not a party; it is a backdrop for economic anxiety and emotional drift. i want your love (2012)
It endures because it refuses to explain itself. It does not apologize for the male body, nor does it romanticize it. It shows gay men as they are: horny, lonely, loyal, scared, and desperately trying to touch something real before it slips away. I Want Your Love is not a film about sex