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“You speak astir nan movie arsenic if I made a movie astir nan past, and I don’t consciousness that way,” filmmaker Ira Sachs says of his latest feature, The Man I Love, which debuted this week successful Competition astatine Cannes.
“Partly because of nan reside of nan film, which was made very overmuch successful nan coming tense, but besides because of nan continuity I’ve had from that play until now. It conscionable feels for illustration it’s portion of a agelong story.”
Directed by Sachs from a screenplay he co-wrote pinch Mauricio Zacharias, nan movie is group successful 1980s New York and follows Jimmy George, a Downtown capacity artist, who is presently surviving successful an “extraordinary infinitesimal betwixt awesome unwellness and decease when, still, each beauty and emotion is possible,” nan charismatic synopsis reads.
Starring successful nan movie are Rami Malek, Tom Sturridge, Luther Ford, Rebecca Hall, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The movie began accumulation connected a 28-day sprout successful New York connected September 21, 2025, and wrapped connected October 29. However, Sachs has said it took him and Zacharias 15 years to trade nan film’s story, which he said was inspired by Maurice Pialat’s Van Gogh.
“This is our sixth movie together,” Sachs said of Zacharias. “We’ve been talking astir this clip and immoderate communicative group successful this clip since we started moving together successful 2010, truthful it’s been brewing for a agelong time.”
He added: “I deliberation erstwhile I began nan film, it felt for illustration I was making immoderate benignant of curriculum vitae astir galore of nan artists that I was acquainted pinch who had died astatine that time, but besides lived astatine that time. When I vanished nan film, it felt much for illustration an autobiography, to beryllium honest, because nan individual resonance of being successful New York and being a young cheery man successful that clip of unthinkable power but besides a batch of acheronian is very adjacent to me.
Sachs’s past 2 features, Passages and Peter Hujar’s Day, had buzzy roll-outs pursuing Sundance and Berlin premieres. The filmmaker was past successful Cannes pinch nan 2019 characteristic Frankie. WME is handling U.S., and mk2 is connected world income for The Man I Love. Cannes runs until May 23.
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