The upcoming film “Passages,” directed and co-written by Ira Sachs, has received a rare NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Assn., the Los Angeles Times has exclusively learned. A decision ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with writer-director Ira Sachs about his new film, "Passages." It's about love and marriage, ego and betrayal. Tomas and Martin are a married couple. They live in Paris ...

It's hard not to agree. It's the intimacy of Passages that makes Sachs' characters so compelling and so insistently alive.

Ira Sachs doesn’t seem like the type of ... them in spectacular fashion once they have been forged. For Sachs, “Passages” also fulfilled his desire to get back behind the camera after ...

"Passages" arrives Friday in director Ira Sachs' Memphis hometown atop a wave of critical attention and ratings board controversy that is unprecedented in the filmmaker's three-decade career.

Sachs’ film doesn’t expand much further than that, but “Passages” is at its best whenever the modesty of its story is allowed to become a strength unto itself. If the drama between these ...

“Passages” marks Sachs’ eighth film. The cast spoke with IndieWire at 2023 Sundance with Rogowski explaining that it took a while to connect to his “irrational and mean” character.

The sequences in which Rogowski respectively, but equally vigorously screws and gets screwed were enough to get Passages labeled ... a huge leap to suggest that Sachs and his cowriter Mauricio ...

Rogowski brings his formidable skills to the challenging role of filmmaker Tomas in Ira Sachs’s “Passages.” In lesser hands, the extremely unlikable Tomas would be intolerable; it’s the ...

Movie review : “Passages,” directed and co-written by Ira Sachs, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos. Playing in theaters. Near the end of “Passages,” a film ...

For Sachs, “Passages” harkens back to an older, mostly European approach to filmmaking. Sachs, son of Park City, Utah, developer Ira Sachs Sr., was born in Memphis, Tennessee but considers ...