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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

says Tomas (Franz Rogowski) to his husband Martin (Ben Whishaw) over breakfast one morning near the start of Ira Sachs’ searing, refreshingly adult drama “Passages.” It’s the “please ...

"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.

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 ...

In French and English with some subtitles. 91 minutes. Ira Sachs plumbs the artistic temperament at its most all-consuming in “Passages,” a handsome slice of sophisticated life set in ...

By Esther Zuckerman Ira Sachs‘ Passages, which is expanding its release this weekend, has become known for its sex scenes, but the filmmaker believes audiences are drawn to it for a different ...

By Jon Frosch Senior Editor, Reviews There are unlikable protagonists, and then there’s Tomas, the tragicomically insufferable narcissist at the center of Ira Sachs’ Passages. A German 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 ...

Sachs is known for films such as “Love Is Strange,” “Little Men,” “Keep the Lights On” and “Frankie,” while Rogowski’s credits include “Transit,” “Victoria,” “Great ...