You Can Live Forever

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You Can Live Forever

2023

1h 36m

Drama

LGBTQ+

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In the early '90s, gay teen Jaime is sent to live with her devout Jehovah’s Witness relatives after the death of her father. Jaime makes an unexpected connection with Marike, daughter of a prominent Witness Elder. The two are instantly drawn to each other, and begin a secret, unspoken romance. But when their attraction becomes too obvious to hide, the community moves to separate the two, forcing them each to make a terrible choice between faith and love.

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Critics Consensus

Narratively subtle and beautifully acted, You Can Live Forever finds soulful drama at the intersection of sexual orientation and religious faith.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

07/04/2023

4/5

This compassionate story of puppy love – co-written and codirected by the former Witness Sarah Watts – shows more understanding towards the community.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

06/12/2023

3/5

It’s got something of Jeanette Winterson’s tenderness, if not exactly the wit, and the movie is interesting and even faintly subversive in its implied analogies concerning conversion and enclosed behaviour systems.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

05/17/2023

Sweet, gentle, and understated.

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Cody Allen

Geek Vibes Nation

Jul 29

9/10

You Can Live Forever is a beautifully crafted cinematic exploration of the universal human themes of identity, desire, and the search for belonging.

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Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

01/05/2024

There's hope here: hope in the idea that abandoning friendships is still bad and that families, blood or relational, are still the glue holding society together...

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Jackson Weaver

CBC News

10/16/2023

4/5

[L]ike so many LGBTQ coming-of-age stories before it, You Can Live Forever is about crushing your heart into a pulp. And, like so many of those, it succeeds — though with an added note of misery.

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Wendy B

@WoodlandElf Nov 11

This movie is just okay. It was really depressing. Add religion and that’s what you get. Not recommended. If you want an uplifting lesbian movie watch “imagine me and you.”

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Sara V

Jul 3

Every scene is there for a purpose and there's no dialog that doesn't need to be there. Just a supremely well acted, well crafted movie. The building of sexuality between the teens is intense and natural. I've watched probably 50 or more lesbian movies and this one of my top 5.

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Laney B.

@oddisum Jun 20

great Hated markies bangs Amazing film

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Ximena J

May 15

Una película que muestra la realidad y lo difícil de la misma aceptación individual.

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10/30/2024

Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee thisssssd❤️❤️

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05/09/2024

I loved this movie especially the music and how it went quite every time it was just them 2, really hope there is a second movie to finish off the story cos I love it but hate it at the same time if yknow what I mean like I love it but it’s sad but hey no lesbians die so woop woop 🙌

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Sarah Watts

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Mark Slutsky

Director

Anwen O'Driscoll

Jaime

June Laporte

Marike

Jennifer Laporte

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Liane Balaban

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Synopsis

In the early '90s, gay teen Jaime is sent to live with her devout Jehovah’s Witness relatives after the death of her father. Jaime makes an unexpected connection with Marike, daughter of a prominent Witness Elder. The two are instantly drawn to each other, and begin a secret, unspoken romance. But when their attraction becomes too obvious to hide, the community moves to separate the two, forcing them each to make a terrible choice between faith and love.

Director: Sarah Watts, Mark Slutsky
Producer: Robert Vroom
Screenwriter: Mark Slutsky, Sarah Watts
Distributor: Good Deed Entertainment
Production Co: Prospector Films
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): May 5, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 5, 2023
Runtime: 1h 36m

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