Cannes Debuts Ira Sachs’s The Man I Love With 10-Minute Ovation

Ira Sachs’s drama The Man I Love had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival to a 10-minute standing ovation; starring Rami Malek as a late-1980s New York theater artist dying of AIDS, the film also features Luther Ford, Tom Sturridge, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Rebecca Hall. The Deadline coverage notes the life-affirming portrayal set against the AIDS crisis and downtown NYC’s artistic scene, with Sachs’s project described as a bookend to his Frankie and marking the second American competition entry after James Gray’s Paper Tiger.