Cult US director Ira Sachs gave us Love Is Strange, the thrilling story of a quietly healthy gay marriage. Here, by contrast, he explores a same-sex union that’s turbulent and dysfunctional. This is a story of a love triangle in Paris that isn’t just same-old, same old – in large part thanks to the presence of national treasure Ben Whishaw.
Feted, narcissistic German auteur Tomas (Franz Rogowski) swaggers around in his tight crop tops, a bo-ho alpha male. Only semi-loyal to his English husband, Martin (Whishaw), Tomas falls for trendy, French twentysomething Agathe (Blue Is the Warmest Colour’s Adele Exarchopoulos). Tomas wants both Agathe and Martin in his life and uses every trick in the book to make it happen.
