Ira Sachs’ ‘The Man I Love’ Gets 10-Minute Ovation At Its Cannes World Premiere

Ira Sachs’ drama The Man I Love starring Rami Malek had its world premiere Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a heartfelt 10-minute ovation following its screening at the Grand Théâtre Lumière.

Ira Sachs’ ‘The Man I Love’ Gets 10-Minute Ovation At Its Cannes World Premiere. Ira Sachs’ drama The Man I Love starring Rami Malek had its world premiere Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a heartfelt 10-minute ovation following its screening at the Grand Théâtre Lumière. The film is the second American movie to screen in the festival’s competition section, following James Gray’s Paper Tiger over the weekend. In The Man I Love, Malek plays New York theater performance artist Jimmy George in late 1980s New York. Jimmy is dying of AIDS as that crisis devastates the city’s artistic community. Despite the prognosis, his desire to live and desire one last time is stronger than everything else. Luther Ford, Tom Sturridge, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Rebecca Hall also star. Malek, Sturridge and Ford were with Sachs for the scr...