Tomas (Franz Rogowski) lives a bohemian lifestyle as a filmmaker in Paris with his husband Martin (Ben Whishaw), and finds himself sleeping with Agath...
Tomas lives a bohemian lifestyle as a filmmaker in Paris with his husband Martin , and finds himself sleeping with Agathe after a wrap party for his latest film. As Tomas finds himself drawn to Agathe, Martin moves on with his life and finds love elsewhere. However, Tomas soon finds himself drifting back towards Martin, and tries to navigate his feelings for them both...
The opening scene of 'Passages' sees Franz Rogowski's character blocking out a scene in a nightclub, picking and pointing out minutiae in the scene from extras, critiquing every aspect of his actor's performance, and rolling over the scene again and again until he's happy. Later, he bails out of the wrap party in order to go to the editing suite.
Franz Rogowski is the middle of the trio, bouncing back and forth between Ben Whishaw and Adéle Exarchopolous throughout the movie. In one, there is comfort and familiarity, a kind of openness that only comes from years spent with someone. Yet, when he runs off with Adéle Exarchopolous, it's at first new and exciting, but then settles into something resembling an accelerated form of domesticity that he then begins to reject.
Strangely, Adéle Exarchopolous' character is only defined in broad terms. She's a teacher, surrounded by children, yet has a sort of detached sense of herself. Even in a particularly awkward scene with her on-screen parents, she says quite little and instead, Franz Rogowski's character dominates and asserts the tenor of the conversation. It's only towards the end of the movie, however, that we begin to understand she herself feels the same way.
For all of the romantic chaos that runs through 'Passages', Ira Sachs keeps the focus on the characters and allows the story to write itself in its own fashion. The scenes are staged in such a naturalistic way, yet done in such a way that there's an unbelievable clarity to them. If there's a complaint to be made, it's that 'Passages' almost seems to resolve itself in such a way that it's never nearly as satisfying as everything that's led up to that point.
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