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The Man I Love review – Rami Malek needs a lighter touch in Ira Sachs’ 80s Aids drama
Cannes film festival: Sachsâ film about an HIV-positive actor in the homophobic Reagan-era 80s is well-intended, but Malekâs mannered performance is hard to love
This film from writer-director Ira Sachs gives us premium-strength, undiluted Rami Malek â but I have to say that his overripe performance and self-conscious mannerisms here are perhaps even more oppressively insistent for being conveyed relatively quietly in spoken dialogue. And not quietly at all in the singing scenes. Malek is a performer whose style is as distinctive as those of John Malkovich or Jeff Goldblum. But it works best with a light touch in the direction and material. Things never really come together here.
Rami Malek, Demi Moore among stars at Cannes screening
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Rami Malek, Demi Moore and Halsey were among the stars who attended a screening for new film The Man I Love in Cannes.
Hollywood actor Malek, in a black dinner jacket, posed for photos on the red carpet for his latest project, directed by independent filmmaker Ira Sachs, at the 79th Cannes Film Festival.
The musical drama is set in late 1980s New York City with Malek starring as actor Jimmy George, who is facing a life-threatening illness and takes on what may be his final big role.
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'The Man I Love' Review: Rami Malek in Ira Sachs' AIDS Drama
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Ira Sachs directs Rami Malek in the melancholy, sexy, and piercingly sad “The Man I Love,” which is elusive to think about and to hold in your hand but nonetheless makes a scarring impression because of how it shirks the cliches related to the AIDS movie genre.
Malek plays a New York performance artist named Jimmy George in the 1980s, who has an affair with the cute ginger twink who’s just moved in downstairs as a sort of last grab at joie de vivre before the disease inevitably takes him down. There are no Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions on display, or tearful bedside vigils, and there’s only one scene in a hospital that’s instead focused entirely on Jimmy’s partner Dennis (Tom Sturridge) and how he reacts to his boyfriend’s worsening and critical condition.
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