Ira Tag

The director talks to Nick Chen about his latest film, Passages – an attractive, thorny love-triangle drama starring Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Franz Rogowski Chemistry, with regard to actors, often denotes ecstatic flirting, comedic timing, or some sort of romantic spark that sets the frame aflame. But what if chemistry describes how the performers scream at one another with pure, intense loathing, their every glance and insult tinged with unfiltered vitriol? “There’s nothing more significant than who you solid in a movie,” observes the 57-year-old director Ira Sachs. “There was a number of joy within the shooting. While you perform sadness, it actually must contain joy.” In Passages, a thorny love-triangle drama Sachs co-wrote...