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Joaqu Phoenix is takg up another notch after Ari Aster’s 'Be Is Aaid,' teamg up wh Todd Hayn for an NC-17 gay romance film.

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OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”

'Passag' is NC-17, 'Red, Whe & Royal Blue' is R—are gay films beg rated on a stricter sle? * nc 17 gay films *

“We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex — a lot of thgs which I’m not, ” he told the L. Both films picted gay relatnships.

As many are quick to pot out, Passag‘ NC-17 ratg reeks of homophobia, spirg wrer-director Sachs to ll out the MPA for beg “anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex. The whole thg brgs to md the recent R-ratg for Amazon’s upg gay rom- Red, Whe & Royal Blue, based off the popular book of the same name by Casey McQuiston—self a massive h wh olr teen and young adult dienc.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

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To s cred, Red, Whe & Royal Blue isn’t y about the gay relatnship at s center and do clu a small handful of fleetg love-makg scen, but they are— this wrer’s timatn (havg seen an early preview of the film)—pretty tame and barely even show sk. Well, there’s one thg the two movi have mon… Are films that feature gay them and gay sex judged on a harsher sle? “We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex—a lot of thgs which I’m not.

JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY

Pedro Almodóvar’s movi often provoke, but 2004’s “Bad Edutn” actually earned the director an NC-17 ratg for one scene which Gael García Bernal’s head is seen bobbg up and down durg a pictn of gay oral sex.

We're talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex — a lot of thgs which I'm not.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR TODD HAYN' NC-17 GAY FILM

" Related ntent: Joaqu Phoenix phed Todd Hayn to 'go further' wh their gay perd romance so 's now NC-17Blon director Andrew Domik 'surprised' about NC-17 ratg: 'I thought we'd lored si the l'Isabelle Huppert fell so ep to her Frankie character that she fot she was actg. PassagWrten and directed by Ira Sachs, Passag tells the story of a longtime gay uple which one of the men has an affair wh a uple is played by Ben Whishaw (Mart) and Franz Rogowski (Tomas), and the woman that between them is Agathe (Adèle Exarchopoulos).

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Out director Ira Sachs slams his new queer film’s NC-17 ratg, llg the MPA “anti-gay” – LGBTQ Pri Talk .

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