The Man I Love

I just saw that earlier, so I guess, you know, in terms of what the festival had to offer, that would definitely be in there.

The Man I Love would be up there and Rami Malek's performance, so I hope movies that we'll be talking about in the coming months.

But what were some of your favorite movies, if we've talked about them or not?

Yeah.

I really want to see it because No Other Land, I think, is a, a fantastic documentary and one that really stayed with me and that I saw in a theater.

So I really want to see Naza in a theater as well.

You mentioned it, The Man I Love.

I still haven't seen this, the Iris Sax movie.

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Kev and I also both saw, uh, The Man I Love, which is the new-

That's right

...

Mm-hmm.

Can I, can I just say both of those movies of, like ...

To me, like, well, thinking about The Intern, mostly about The Man I Love, I love a hangout movie where the stakes feel kinda low-

Yeah.

What I, I, what I wanted to point out was you said that was such a moving, and, like, the, the conclusion it comes to at the end, I won't spoil it, but it's an optimistic view on how we move forward as a society.

I just wanted to say my sensibilities, uh, the film Possible Love I thought really lined up, 'cause it's dealing with very similar, uh, themes of capitalism and relationship dynamics and where do we go in this society in a modern day.

And I just wanted to say personally, I gravitated toward Possible Love.

I thought it was a masterpiece of the festival in my opinion.

But you, I think you gravitated towards All of a Sudden.

Is that correct?

Yeah.

Well, I think Possible Love is interesting, 'cause that, it, that also, it's, it's shorter than All of a Sudden.

...

The Man I Love as well, very good in that.

Yeah.

And it's like, it's a reasonably kind of simplistic, I don't wanna say shallow, but, like, surface level depiction of kind of certain marital and family problems.

What about you, Jack? Any other hidden gems that, uh, we didn't end up getting mentioned here?

I'm gonna throw, uh, The Man I Love.

I think this was the better drama dealing with AIDS and using that as a way for, uh, artistic, uh, artistic, uh, expression.

And basically you have Rami Malek, who's playing a actor who's trying to perform a play that's very, like, tolling on his body.

Um, so yeah.

I think this is the reason why I really wanted to, like, throw a bone for this film because I think it's, like, way better than, like, Elsinore, where Elsinore was kinda more conventional, and it was doing things that I've already seen before.

And I think The Man I Love was just, like, very subversive in the type of, uh, themes that we are usually seeing or we usually see before.

So yeah, that's why I picked this.

Maisie

Stella was in The Man I Love.

Oh yeah, Maisie Stella, because I said she has iPhone face, so she didn't make sense in that milieu.

It's true, though.

It's good.

The Man I Love, which is another film that I saw later in the week with Remy Malek and again, another film about a actor who has aids and he's kind of going through it and there's a young neighbor downstairs that thinks he could be the romantic distraction that malik's character needs well while malik's actual live-in boyfriend is the kind of caregiver who doesn't get any respect he's there making sure all bills are counted what have you and that performance as just a supportive performance was amazing i was really fascinated with that whole dynamic um again it was just i think some films kind of hit people harder than others and i think because i had that emotional early on of just family emotion and sadness that by the time I got to those films I was like it's solid but my eyes were dry they were not there was no water left to tap

the only time my eyes welled were in Alaska that was it that's what I

missed

I was like, oh, no one's going to want to see this.

And it was completely sold out.

Whereas The Man I Love was still available.

I think it might have been...

Yeah.

So then I watched Ira Sachs' new movie, The Man I Love.

Ira Sachs is a really wonderful filmmaker.

Love is Strange, Passages, Married Life, Little Men.

They're also showing Ray Gunn there.

And yeah, also, I'm actually really curious about The Man I Love.

I know that's not even probably coming out this year, but it's also maybe a reason why I am very excited for it.

And I'm always in the tank for Ira Sachs.