The Frail Beauty of Living Artfully in a Dying World Ira Sachs' latest film, The Man I Love, is a ravishing and unflinching portrait of art, love, and mortality in 1980s New York City.
On its surface, the movie appears to be a deeply personal exploration of the downtown theater scene, but it's more than that – an elegy for a generation on the brink of collapse.
The film centers around Jimmy George (Rami Malek), a charismatic artist struggling to come to terms with his own mortality after being diagnosed with AIDS related illness.