Fidelity and monogamy aren’t the biggest deal. Gender preferences aren’t etched in stone (nor do they require any discussion or explanation). “Passages,” many have noted, has a very European sensibility despite being directed by an American.

Later that night, they end up in bed and Tomas bikes home the next day to tell his husband how exciting it was to sleep with a woman. At the wrap party, Martin doesn’t feel like dancing with Tomas, but Agathe, fresh out of her own relationship does.

Like many directors before him, Tomas carries these expectations with him into his real life and relationships. He does not seem to be the kind who might resort to yelling at or berating those around him, but his insistence on controlling things and having them exactly how he wants them to be is not insignificant. We’re introduced to him micromanaging actors in a scene. Directed by Ira Sachs, working again with his co-writer Mauricio Zacharias, “Passages” is centered on Tomas (Franz Rogowski), a German living in France with his English husband Martin (Ben Whishaw), who begins an affair with a French woman, Agathe (Adèle Exarchopoulos).

(Its distributor, MUBI, opted instead to release it in theaters as unrated.) No, “Passages” should come with a warning for its brutal honesty about the intoxicating haze of a new relationship and all its casualties.Īt least it's fun and dangerous at the start (aren’t they all, though).

If you’ve been wondering where all the sex has gone from the movies, you’re in luck: The new film “Passages” does not hold back in depicting the fresh passion of a love affair.īut “Passages” should really come with a warning, and not because of its realistic illustrations of queer and heterosexual intimacy, which got the film slapped with an NC-17 rating.

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