A Tribute to Ira Sachs
Jimmy (Rami Malek) is a theater actor whose reputation precedes him: magnetic, capricious, selfish, but undeniably talented. In the care of his patient partner after a stay in the hospital due to AIDS, he begins to rehearse what he knows will be his final role in a play. With fatalistic joie de vivre, Jimmy throws himself into these last months of life, surrounded by a vibrant community of artistic friends and family that includes his worried sister (Rebecca Hall), his infatuated next-door neighbor, and his fellow actors. They each enrich Jimmy’s decline with the dramas of art, sex, and reconciliation.
Ira Sachs (Peter Hujar’s Day, Passages) presents a deeply textured and compassionate film that challenges the conventions of an AIDS story, imbuing the end of Jimmy’s life with shimmering vitality. The Man I Love is just as much a portrait of someone who aches to create in the face of death as it is an homage to the dynamic individuals who gather around him, capturing the vivid spirit of 1980s New York City.
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Ira Sachs is a Rockefeller, Guggenheim, MacDowell, and Yaddo Fellow, and has produced work that is held in the permanent collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney. He is also the Founding Director of Queer|Art, an arts organization built to support mentorship for LGBTQ+ artists and born out of the recognition of a generation of artists and audiences lost to the AIDS crisis. Join us as we present this year’s Q-Hugo Artistic Achievement Award to the director of The Man I Love.
