What you need to know:
In an interview with Ira Sachs for the premiere of ‘Passages’, we talked about the most intimate details of the film and his way of interpreting chaos in love.
Ira Sachs He is one of the most popular indie film directors today, and some of his films, according to some experts, are part of the movement that defines the new queer cinema (HERE we leave you a list). Hence his latest film titled Passages, garnered a lot of attention in the months leading up to its release.
Passages is a French production starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos that poses a love triangle full of chaos and transgressions that show Sachs’s ability to create settings so intimate that they are revealing on screen.
So taking advantage of his visit to Mexico City at the beginning of July, we had a chance to talk to him about Passages and some details in its narrative that make it one of the most intense and relevant films of this 2023. Here is the full interview:
Passages by Ira Sachs
Passages has as its protagonist Tomas, a film director making a film in Paris, city where he lives with his partner, a British publisher named Martin. The last day of shooting, during the closing party, Tomas meets Agathe, a French woman with whom he has sexual relations.
After their first sexual encounter, Tomas searches for Agathe’s contact to maintain a relationship with the promise of something more intimate and personal. So he decides to talk it over with Martin. The consequences of this decision, at first, seem disastrous for Martin and Agathe.
But thanks to Ira Sachs’ slick storytelling, it all ends up centering on Tomas. Tomas, played by Franz Rogowski, is one of the most enigmatic characters of recent years.and whose development becomes the basis of a moderate drama that raises the idea of a love that breaks with a fictitious calm.
That being said, the true value of Passages is found in two points: Sachs’s ability, as we said, to creating settings so intimate that they end up being revealing for the audience (even transgressors); and the work of the three main actors, who remain in a chaotic circle of passion, love, tenderness and idealization.
