Passages review – Ira Sachs excels with thorny love triangle drama | Sundance 2023
After his Cannes misfire Frankie in 2021, writer-director Ira Sachs has made a compelling return to form at Sundance with his cruelly well-observed drama Passages. It’s a bit of a bland title and one that never really pays off but its subject matter is far more compelling, a messy little movie about a specifically awful brand of narcissist who will be frighteningly familiar to many of us who have known him and even moreso to those who might well be him.Transit’s Franz Rogowski plays self-obsessed film director Tomas,…