Tomas (Rogowski) and Martin (Whishaw) are a gay couple into whose marriage the wickedly charming Agathe (Adèle Exarchopoulos) fills the developing cracks like Polyfilla after she becomes Tomas’ love interest. The Paris-set Passages is a sexy, tangled-up drama exposing the crumbling fatalities of modern relationships, with a throuple – and a good-looking one at that – as the film’s centrepiece. At last, the queer film we’ve been waiting hand, knee and foot for. Last year’s releases were marred by the sweet but shouty box-ticking of Bros the gnawing, surface-level representation of Harry Styles’ closeted copper role in My Policeman and – how could we forget? – Kevin Bacon’s abysmal queer conversion slasher-horror They/Them.īut then in struts Passages, the pulsating new release by indie director Ira Sachs starring Ben Wishaw and Euro-acting icon Franz Rogowski. Queer cinema has experienced a fair few blows recently.
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