Passages Q&A with Ira Sachs

Director Ira Sachs discusses his feature, Passages, in a Q&A moderated by film critic, Esther Zuckerman. Get tickets: www.filmlinc.org/films/passages/
A masterful work of psychosexual intensity, the newest film from Ira Sachs offers one of the director’s most cutting variations on desire and intimacy. Co-written by author and longtime collaborator Mauricio Zacharias, Passages follows Tomas (Franz Rogowski), a mercurial German filmmaker living in Paris whose commitment to his husband, Martin (Ben Whishaw), falls short when he pursues a dalliance with a young schoolteacher, Agathe (Adèle Exarchopoulos). Martin begins his own affair soon after, while Tomas swings between both relationships and unleashes a reckless succession of breakups and makeups. With fearless performances from Rogowski, Whishaw, and Exarchopoulos, Sachs crafts a cinematic rarity in which the white-hot pleasures and compulsions of a particularly dysfunctional amour fou are kept on par with ferocious honesty. A MUBI release.
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[@TigerPrawn_]

Amazingly engaging and fascinating conversation! Great questions from the interviewer and the audience. It’s always a pleasure to hear about what goes on behind the scenes, and it sounds like Ira is fun to work with!

[@DIE_Kugeldistel]

I liked some parts of the film, especially the cast. Sadly I missed a real examining the subject of relationship. This turned out really flat to me. There are multiple films, which are capable of showing diffrent tones of feelings while people live with unhealthy relationships. What I see here is like the first zwei pages of a book about how narcistic persons are trying to avoid real contact. Sorry to say so, but if you do a research for one day about a typical relationship with a narcist, you find the plot of the film. So for me its not enough to depict a phenomenon, i would like to see what diffrent kind of shades this could touch in a character and I wished I could see the directors perspective on relationships like that...
I also don't see a very deep dealing with "intimacy", I wonder what the directors personal experiences with intimacy are