‘Passages’ Director Slams NC-17 Rating, Says MPA Board Is ‘Anti-Progress’
thewrap.comMUBI. “There’s no untangling the film from what it is,” Sachs told The Los Angeles Times. “It is a film that is very open about the place of sexual experience in our lives.
And to shift that now would be to create a very different movie.”“Passages,” which premiered at Sundance this year, follows a same-sex couple, Tomas and Martin (Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw), whose relationship is upended when Tomas has an affair with a woman named Agathe (Adèle Exarchapoulos).
The film shows how those relationships change through a series of sex scenes both gay and heterosexual, including one that takes up over two minutes of runtime. “To make an interesting sex scene is not easy,” Sachs told the Times. “Each of the sex scenes to me is a chapter in the film.
It has a story. And I wanted each one to have its own relevance and have its own details and be interesting to the audience.
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