The French absolutely adore director Ira Sachs (“Love is Strange”) and another bow in Cannes competition seems to almost be a certainty with his latest film, “Passages.” Sachs’ eighth film as a director just started production according to mega French producer Saïd Ben Saïd.
“I’m working on a film called Passages about two men who’ve been together for fifteen years, and one of them has an affair with a woman,” Sachs told Outtake Mag. “It’s an intimacy triangle I’ll hopefully be shooting this year.”
The film stars Ben Whishaw, Franz Rogowski and Adele Exarchopoulos. You can now add Sachs to a starry roster of directors who are aiming to premiere their new films at Cannes 2022.
In this month’s “Cannes ’22 Spitballing Continues” piece, I speculated that the likes of Cronenberg, Ceylan, Park, Ostlund, Inarittu, Dardenne, Hamaguchi, Gray, Sissako, Glazer, Zhangke, Reichardt Balagov, Zvyagintsev, Godard and Anderson (Wes) could all be a part of next May’s Cannes Film Festival competition.
Sachs was last in competition at Cannes with “Frankie” in 2019.
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