Ira Sachs’ The Man I Love Starring Rami Malek Gets French Distribution

Ira Sachs‘ latest drama “The Man I Love,” starring Oscar winner Rami Malek and Tom Sturridge, has secured French distribution ahead of its world premiere in competitors at the Cannes Film Festival.

Alexandre Mallet-Guy’s company Memento will release the movie in France.

Set in the vibrant period of late ’80s New York, “The Man I Love” follows Jimmy George (Malek), an iconic determine in the theater world, who “lives with the most tender and attentive of lovers. But faced with the death that awaits him, his thirst to live and create, to desire and to love one last time, is stronger than anything else,” reads the synopsis. The drama paints an image of a gaggle of artists and associates for whom creativity has develop into a type of survival. 

Sachs and longtime collaborator Mauricio Zacharias co-wrote the script. Rebecca Hall and Ebon Moss-Bachrach round up the forged.

Represented worldwide by MK2 Films, “The Man I Love” marks Ira Sachs’ return to the Cannes competitors. It’s produced by Big Creek Projects in the United States, in affiliation with Saïd Ben Saïd’s SBS Productions in France.

The deal for “The Man I Love” reteams MK2 Films and Memento who beforehand labored together on Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” and Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” winners of the Palme d’Or and the Grand Prize, respectively, at last 12 months’s Cannes.

“‘The Man I Love’ moved us with its blend of modesty and tenderness, which lends the otherwise tragic story all its emotional power with incredible delicacy,” said Mallet-Guy. “Ira Sachs delivers a universal work that speaks above all of unwavering love and resilience.”

Mallet-Guy will also be at the Cannes Film Festival with Asghar Farhadi’s “Parallel Tales” which he produced alongside Farhadi and David Levine at Anonymous Content.