Review: ‘Passages’ is a compelling sexual triangle set in Paris — and a 2023 film standout

Five minutes into “Passages,” a scene from a marriage takes a casually fateful turn, and one of the year's best films is off and running to destinations unknown. Late at night, a noisy Paris bistro is hosting a party for a film crew's recent completion of a feature. The director, a live-wire German emigre named Tomas, wants to dance. His reticent English husband Martin, sitting somewhat wearily at the bar, declines; the woman sitting next to Martin, French schoolteacher Agathe, volunteers. Eighty minutes later, director and co-writer Ira Sachs' sexual triangle comes to a perfectly judged concl…

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