Passages is a 2023 French romantic drama film co-written and directed by Ira Sachs and starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
It depicts a same-sex male couple whose marriage encounters a crisis when one of the men begins an affair with a young woman.
Tomas expresses dissatisfaction with their too-comfortable and riskless relationship, while Martin accuses him of falling in love with Agathe.
Back in Paris, Martin meets Amad, a writer and novelist, through a mutual friend at a restaurant.
Tomas later comes by the apartment to return the keys, inviting himself to spend the night and come with Martin to the country house early the next morning for repairs, claiming it is his property as well.
Tomas proposes that he and Martin raise the baby as a family, confessing he is confused about his feelings for Agathe and misses being with a man.
She meets Martin for lunch, where she reveals to him that she has undergone an abortion, stating that although she wants a family, she realised she would disappear among the three of them.
Tomas stops by Agathe's classroom, begging her to forgive him and inviting her to join him on his trip, but she rejects him as well.
[18] Mubi issued a statement calling the decision "unexpected" and "deeply disappoint[ing]" and said it would release the film in the United States without a rating.
The website's critics consensus reads, "Elevated by a remarkable Franz Rogowski performance, Passages adds another smart, deeply humanistic film to director/co-writer Ira Sachs' estimable filmography.
[21] The character of Tomas drew comparisons to the life of the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.