Passages

While there’s much acute pain in Passages, it can also be funny in a way that smacks of self-deprecation.

...it’s one of Sachs’ most fully-realised and psychologically perceptive works.

...creates a rare tension between the unvarnished immediacy of its cast and the unflinching steadiness with which they’re flattened into the frame.

Ira Sachs excels with thorny love triangle drama.

A bittersweet reckoning deftly illustrated by a duo on opposite ends of a relationship’s chaotic twists and turns, Passages revels in the fallout of fucking around and finding out.

Anchored by excellent performances from its three intertwined leads, Passages is alternately tender and thorny in its close character study of a narcissist, and as a romantic drama with no winners.