“I really wanted to make a horny film,” Sachs said in a recent interview from Spain, where he was receiving an award. “Like, a film that gave pleasure and was about pleasure. And part of that pleasure is about sex but also the pleasure of cinema.
The New York-based, 57-year-old filmmaker of sharply observed independent films ( “Love Is Strange,”“Little Men” ) was compelled to create, as he says, “a film of intimacy.” “Passages,” Sachs’ ninth feature, would be his first film coming out of the pandemic and he craved a closeness and tenderness that had been missing from both life…
NEW YORK (AP) Ira Sachs never set out to make an NC-17-rated film. The New York-based, 57-year-old filmmaker of sharply observed independent films ( “Love Is Strange,”“Little Men” ) was compelled to create, as he says, “a film of intimacy.” “Passages,” Sachs’ ninth feature, would be his first film coming out of the pandemic […]