Ira Sachs’ latest drama, The Man I Love, starring Oscar winners Rami Malek and Tom Sturridge, has secured distribution in France ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Alexandre Mallet-Guy’s company Memento will release the film in France.
Set in the heady days of New York in the late ’80s, The Man I Love follows Jimmy George (Malek), an iconic figure in the theater world who “lives with the kindest and most caring of lovers, but in the face of death that awaits him, his yearning to live and create and love one last time is stronger than anything else,” the synopsis says. The drama follows a group of artists and friends whose creativity becomes a form of survival.
Sacks and longtime collaborator Mauricio Zacharias co-wrote the screenplay. Rebecca Hall and Ebon Moss-Bachrach rounded out the cast.
Produced internationally by MK2 Films, The Man I Love marks Ira Sachs’ return to competition at Cannes. The film is produced by Big Creek Projects in the US in collaboration with France’s Said Ben Said’s SBS Productions.
The deal for “The Man I Love” sees Memento once again team up with MK2 Films, which co-starred in director Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” and Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” which won the Palme d’Or and the Grand Prix at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
“‘The Man I Love’ touched us with its combination of humility and tenderness, which gives the tragic story emotional power with incredible sensitivity,” said Mallet Guy. “Ira Sachs delivers universal work that speaks above all to unwavering love and resilience.”
Mallet Guy will also be attending the Cannes Film Festival with Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales, which he produced with Farhadi and David Levine for Anonymous Content.
