Rami Malek leads Cannes film on love and the AIDS crisis
The film follows a performance artist with AIDS who keeps creating as a New York queer scene faces the epidemic, and it earned a standing ovation.
- Director Ira Sachs and actor Rami Malek premiered "The Man I Love" on Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, where the drama received a standing ovation lasting more than seven minutes.
- Set in New York circa 1984, the film follows Jimmy George, a beloved queer entertainer living with AIDS who refuses to stop working and is determined to mount a new theatrical production as time runs short.
- Starring alongside Malek are Tom Sturridge, Luther Ford, Rebecca Hall, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. A standout scene features Malek performing Melanie's 1970 hit "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma" at his parents' anniversary party.
- Malek appeared overwhelmed as the film screened, his eyes filling with tears before he turned in circles as if committing the theater to memory. The drama is one of two American features competing for the Palme d'Or.
- The film arrives 16 months after Sachs's previous feature "Peter Hujar's Day," continuing his prolific run in independent cinema. MK2 Films handles international sales while WME Independent represents North America for U.S. distribution.
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Rami Malek leads Cannes film on love and the AIDS crisis
From wartime France to the AIDS crisis and noir-soaked Los Angeles, Cannes is diving deep into stories of political upheaval and personal survival. Rami Malek stars in 'The Man I Love', Ira Sachs' intimate portrait of art, desire and loss in 1980s New York. Antonin Baudry’s epic 'De Gaulle' revisits France’s wartime collapse, while Andy García’s long-awaited noir 'Diamond' earned a standing ovation on the Croisette.
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