Director: Ira Sachs
Starring: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos
Film director Tomas lives in Paris with his husband Martin. While working on a new film, Tomas begins a passionate affair with schoolteacher Agathe. When Tomas reveals the affair to Martin, tensions within the marriage immediately worsen. But Tomas is determined to keep both the marriage and affair alive, so he risks it all to attempt a reckless romantic balancing act…
Director Ira Sachs brings three of Europe’s finest contemporary actors – Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos – together for this masterfully messy romantic drama. It’s hard to look away as Rogowski’s Tomas, a charismatic yet petulant force of nature, leaves a trail of emotional destruction in his wake. Passages is riveting, sexy and sophisticated cinema.
★★★★ “An increasingly devastating cycle of bruised hearts… a slow trail of wreckage that becomes impossible not to become involved in” – Benjamin Lee, The Guardian
“Passages is propelled by Rogowski, who brings feral, provocative energy to a character who can be irresistible even when he’s at his most irritatingly demanding and mercurial” – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
