Ira Sachs’ ‘The Man I Love’ Gets 10-Minute Ovation At Its Cannes World Premiere

Ira Sachs‘ play The Man I Love starring Rami Malek had its world premiere Wednesday astatine nan Cannes Film Festival, wherever it received a heartfelt 10-minute ovation pursuing its screening astatine nan Grand Théâtre Lumière.

The movie is nan 2nd American movie to surface successful nan festival’s title section, pursuing James Gray’s Paper Tiger complete nan weekend.

In The Man I Love, Malek plays New York theatre capacity creator Jimmy George successful precocious 1980s New York. Jimmy is dying of AIDS arsenic that situation devastates nan city’s creator community. Despite nan prognosis, his desire to unrecorded and desire 1 past clip is stronger than everything else. Luther Ford, Tom Sturridge, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Rebecca Hall besides star.

Malek, Sturridge and Ford were pinch Sachs for nan screening, on pinch 100 aliases truthful cast, unit and creatives from nan pic.

The Man I Love is simply a bookend movie of sorts to Sachs’ 2019 Cannes title movie Frankie, starring Isabelle Huppert astir a female bringing her family together 1 past clip aft being diagnosed pinch cancer. Both were co-written pinch his longtime collaborator Mauricio Zacharias.

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Sachs lived successful NYC during nan clip play depicted successful The Man I Love.

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