Its next movie is a great reflection on a long standing relationship.

Love Is Strange (M) screens at 7pm this Monday, June 22 at Fay's Twin Cinema, Taree.

After nearly four decades together, Ben (John Lithgow, pictured right) and George (Alfred Molina, pictured left) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan.

But when George loses his job soon after, the couple must sell their apartment and victims of the relentless New York City real estate market temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home.

While George moves in with two cops (Cheyenne Jackson and Manny Perez) who live down stairs, Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew (Darren Burrows), his wife (Marisa Tomei), and their temperamental teenage son (Charlie Tahan), with whom Ben shares a bunk bed.

While struggling with the pain of separation, Ben and George are further challenged by the intergenerational tensions and capricious family dynamics of their new living arrangements

Love Is Strange is a multi-generational story that examines the different ways each of us experience love and what we expect from it at different points in our lives.

The heart of the story is the long-term relationship of Ben and George, two men who have built a life together for over 30 years, who get married in the first scene and lose their home in the second.

What does love look like to those who have been together for a lifetime, and are now in their later years? For the characters of Ben and George, that love is given shape by loss, both material and personal, and how that loss can shine a bright light on all that these men had in their love for each other over so many years.

In the characters of Kate and Elliot, a married couple in their late 40s, we see love in crisis, and how we often face ourselves in real and surprising ways in middle age.

Their son is growing up, their stable lives interrupted by their uncle's unexpected presence; and everything that they knew to be fact seems much less certain.

And in their son, we find the nature of young love of learning the realities of love through observing the relationships of others.

Joey watches his parents, he watches Ben and George.

They say you don't teach your children by what you say, but by what you do.

In many ways, Love Is Strange is a coming-of-age story, as it tracks the growing awareness of a teenage boy as he becomes a man and what he learns from all the different relationships around him.

Love Is Strange is about the ways we learn to live how we are taught and who teaches us.

How does the church teach us about love; how does a piano teacher teach us about music; how does an artist help us see; how do movies teach us who we are, and what love, strange and beautiful, can look like?

Tickets are $16 including chatting with cakes and coffee. For further information visit www.tareefilmsociety.org.au or phone 6552 3476.