Ira Sachs has been around since his 1997 debut “The Delta,” but he had an artistic breakthrough when he released the trifecta of 2012’s “Keep the Lights On,” 2014’s “Love is Strange” and 2016’s “Little Men.”
His follow-up was 2019’s much-maligned “Frankie,” and then he premiered this past January, at Sundance, the best film of his career: “Passages. This was a return to form for the American indie filmmaker, the plot, set in Europe, concerning three Parisian adults caught up in a sultry love triangle.
What’s next for Sachs? He spoke to Les Inrockuptibles about what he’s currently been working on:
The next film I’m writing takes place in New York in the early 1990s. I am also working on a short film with Ben Whishaw, which also takes place in New York 1974. So I'm going to be back in New York. I'm just following where the stories take me.
So, there you have it. Sachs will be going to back to the U.S. for his next feature. No word yet on plot details and a production date.
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