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Leaving Soon
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1h 42m
Directed by Ira Sachs | 102 mins | 2012
A phone sex hotline encounter between a documentary filmmaker and a closeted literary agent gives rise to a decade-long relationship riven by addiction in this closely observed, semi-autobiographical work by Ira Sachs. While his latest film, Cannes competition title "The Man I Love", returns to the ’70s New York of "Peter Hujar’s Day" (2025), this fractious love story subtly evokes the city’s ’90s, as tuned to the sweetly plangent tones of Arthur Russell.
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