Passages

Saw this at a preview screening in Hamburg. To me, it felt like a realistic depiction of modern love that many people, including myself, have either seen or experienced. Franz Rogowski delivers an excellent performance, which deceives you into both hating and relating to him. All in all, it’s a great movie.

Ira Sachs was also a really nice guy during the Q&A. I especially loved what he said about the influence of ‘Taxi zum Klo’ on queer cinema.

Representation of the loneliness of a narcissistic character who wanders between a spent love and an illusory but empty, passionate but selfish infatuation. It is a film that provokes the viewer with imperfect characters, about whom it is as easy to feel rejection as it is to try to find their humanity. The opening scene reflects Tomas' need to control everything that happens around him, which ultimately ends up being the impetus for his emotional journey. With some sex scenes that reflect their characters in the way they are executed, it is a film as imperfect as it is exciting.

An intriguing glimpse into a type of relationships that is characteristic of the modern era, a theme that still finds little space within both independent and mainstream cinema. While favoring everyday situations over drama, the characters' lifestyles are distinctive enough to evoke interest in the viewer. Both their flaws and weaknesses are relatable, yet spicy enough to stimulate sympathies and antipathies.

However, I must admit that a bit more fluidity and promiscuity wouldn't have hurt. Relationships consolidate and fall apart rather abruptly, lacking the transitional phases or casual sex that would typically occur in such a context.

Like the 300th testimonial on the disadvantages of diarrhea, I didn't need someone to explain the obvious to me, especially for so long and with so little originality.

A gay film director makes a movie about a gay film director and it ends up just being another rock on the mountain of evidence that romantic relationships suck.

(PS Franz Rogowski and Adèle Exarchopoulos ! 😍)

I saw nothing new in this movie that made me think it has anything to offer other than a showcase of the talented Ben Wishaw. He's just fantastic. The film, however, is not.

was Franz Rogowski playing a 2003 Britney Spears song cause that boy is TOXIC

To put it bluntly: unoriginal and dull.