If you’ve been wondering where all the sex has gone from the movies, you’re in luck: The new film Passages does not hold back in depicting the fresh passion of a love affair.
But Passages should really come with a warning, and not because of its realistic illustrations of queer and heterosexual intimacy, which got the film slapped with an NC-17 rating. (Its distributor, MUBI, opted instead to release it in theaters as unrated.) No, Passages should come with a warning for its brutal honesty about the intoxicating haze of a new relationship and all its casualties.