Between Love & Goodbye

For Kyle (Simon Miller) and Marcel (Justin Tensen), it's love at first sight and soon they're sharing a New York apartment. They're serious enough about each other that Marcel, a Frenchman, marries their lesbian friend so he can stay in the U.S.
But then Kyle's brother (Rob Harmon) shows up and the sweetness and light start fading in Casper Andreas' wrenching, uncompromising and unpredictable "Between Love & Goodbye." The brother has profound transgender issues. He's desperate to be cared for, and a master manipulator of Kyle, who at heart is naive and saucer-shallow. The brothers' close bond was cemented when their mother committed suicide and from the get-go it's clear -- not to Kyle, of course -- that his brother is out to destroy his relationship with Marcel.
"Between Love & Goodbye" is a well-made and absorbing cautionary tale. Performances are first-rate, and Jon Fordham's cinematography glows.
Da The Los Angeles Times, 6 marzo 2009