{"id":542975,"date":"2023-01-24T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T09:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-passages-review-a-menage-a-meltdown-in-paris\/"},"modified":"2023-01-24T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T09:42:08","slug":"watch-passages-review-a-menage-a-meltdown-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-passages-review-a-menage-a-meltdown-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Passages&#8217; Review: A M\u00e9nage \u00e0 Meltdown in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37184ddbae8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37184ddbae8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-passages-review-a-menage-a-meltdown-in-paris\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Passages_Review_A_Menage_a_Meltdown_in_Paris%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Passages&#8217; Review: A M\u00e9nage \u00e0 Meltdown in Paris&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-passages-review-a-menage-a-meltdown-in-paris\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Passages_Review_A_Menage_a_Meltdown_in_Paris%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Passages&#8217; Review: A M\u00e9nage \u00e0 Meltdown in Paris&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Passages_Review_A_Menage_a_Meltdown_in_Paris%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Passages&#8217; Review: A M\u00e9nage \u00e0 Meltdown in Paris&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Passages_Review_A_Menage_a_Meltdown_in_Paris%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Passages&#8217; Review: A M\u00e9nage \u00e0 Meltdown in Paris&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    With \u201cPassages,\u201d American indie darling Ira Sachs (\u201cLove Is Strange\u201d) makes his first film in France, a brutally honest portrait of a train-wreck relationship in which an openly gay director sabotages his marriage \u2014 and maybe his life \u2014 by falling for a woman. Affairs h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en; that\u2019s nothing new. But this one proves unusually destructive, giving three stellar international actors \u2014 German actor Franz Rogowski (\u201cGreat Freedom\u201d), Ben Whishaw (\u201cThe Lobster\u201d) and Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos (\u201cBlue Is the Warmest Color\u201d) \u2014 a chance to tear one another\u2019s hearts to shreds. Domestic interest will be limited, as it always is with Sachs\u2019 shoestring heart-tuggers, but having his previous movie, \u201cFrankie,\u201d selected for Cannes should give \u201cPassages\u201d a certain entr\u00e9e in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Like a less-tyrannical, latter-day Fassbinder, queer auteur Tomas (Rogowski) is used to calling the shots. On set, the cast and crew put up with his tantrums. At home, longtime partner Martin (Whishaw) humors his needy husband\u2019s caprices. But this time, Tomas may have gone too far, hooking up with Agathe (Exarchopoulos) after the wrap party for his latest film, and the subsequent implosion is something to witness, like watching a toxic supernova collapsing in on itself. In Paris. Which is by far the sexiest place for romance to unravel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cYou could say that you\u2019re happy for me,\u201d Tomas challenges Martin after confessing the affair, making the transgression about himself, as he does most things. Tomas is more than a mere narcissist; he\u2019s a borderline sociopath, lying and manipulating to get what he wants, and Sachs\u2019 latest warts-and-all relationship study \u2014 a fitting companion piece to 2012\u2019s blisteringly personal \u201cKeep the Lights On,\u201d also co-written by Mauricio Zacharias \u2014 observes the trail of destruction that such a personality leaves in his wake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Whose side is Sachs on? There\u2019s no question that he feels for Martin, a slightly co-dependent enabler who\u2019s clearly been humiliated by Tomas before. Sachs also empathizes with Agathe, the young woman who\u2019s drawn to Tomas\u2019 fame as well as the idea that she may have seduced a gay man, but sincerely wants to think that this one-night stand could have a future. Sachs even feels a certain amount of pity for Tomas, in whom the helmer may see a certain amount of himself. Incorrigible as the character may be, Rogowski is too complex an actor to turn Tomas into some kind of monster. In fact, his costumes \u2014 eyesore sweaters and situation-inappropriate crop tops \u2014 suggest more of a clown at times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Sachs excels at investigating thorny, uncomfortable situations, and he treats all three characters fairly here, which allows audiences to decide which one they identify with. It should be said: Despite superficial similarities to the hit play \u201cCock,\u201d the movie is not a serious portrait of bisexuality. However, its depiction of a difficult and self-absorbed artist chimes with recent criticisms of industry misbehavior \u2014 how power and celebrity bring a kind of entitlement \u2014 which gives the movie added cachet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cThis always happens when you finish a film. You just forget,\u201d Martin tells Tomas. That line captures the shrewd, soul-piercing quality we\u2019ve come to expect from Sachs and Zacharias, who\u2019ve now collaborated on five films together, resulting in the richest stretch of the director\u2019s career. Instead of serving up a playlist of all the obvious high-drama scenes we think we want from a love-triangle movie, they\u2019re just as likely to portray the quiet, in-between moments, planting clues that allude to arguments and arrangements that occurred when the cameras weren\u2019t eavesdropping, but which intelligent audiences can infer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cDon\u2019t be melodramatic,\u201d Tomas chides Martin when the latter dares to call him on one of his lies. Yet that could easily be the film\u2019s mantra, as Sachs dedicates himself to steering clear of clich\u00e9s without sacrificing truth. For all the raw emotional realism the director brings to his work, there\u2019s always been a certain clumsiness in the way he stages a scene. But each film brings him closer to his European art-house idols: Eric Rohmer, Maurice Pialat and, perhaps most relevant here, Jean Eustache. At times, \u201cPassages\u201d plays like a queer riff on Eustache\u2019s landmark \u201cThe Mother and the Whore,\u201d about a bourgeois twentysomething torn between two lovers who, instead of deciding, tries to force them into cohabitating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    After Tomas takes his things and moves in with Agathe, Martin rather briskly rebounds with an up-and-coming French novelist, Amad (Erwan Kepoa Fal\u00e9). He knows the relationship will make Tomas jealous, and it does. The thing with narcissists is that they can be exasperatingly predictable. As if on cue, Tomas is back, having make-up sex with Martin. Sachs isn\u2019t the slightest bit shy about showing audiences what passion looks (or sounds) like between his characters, though this particular session goes on a little long and might have played better on their faces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    What happens next, no one saw coming, and rather than spoil it, suffice to say that Tomas\u2019 self-absorption reaches new heights in the strategy he uses to suggest a m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois \u2014 not a threesome, mind you, but a new domestic arrangement in which he can be surrounded by the two loves of his life, both of whom take a back seat to his ego. The movie argues that directors are called upon to be selfish, dictatorial jerks, in order to make great work, which might encourage such misconduct. But in the end, it\u2019s Tomas who winds up being the melodramatic one, staging an over-the-top take-me-back scene that might have worked in some cornball Hollywood movie. 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