‘Passages’ Review — Pleasure, performance, and fantastic fashion

The first time I saw Passages, I watched it at this summer’s incarnation of Outfest, the Los Angeles LGBTQ+ festival. While you might expect such a crowd to be discerning, I saw it with an audience who apparently thought Passages was hysterical. To my utter dismay, most of the people around me found the film laugh-out-loud funny, and they cackled uproariously throughout the entire runtime. Anything too mannered, too European, too melodramatic, was met with loud guffaws. As I left, I overheard a girl say, “Everyone was cracking me up with all their reactions!” Her friend agreed, exclaiming, “It made the movie so much funnier!” This confirmed my suspicion that the loudest among us were belly-laughing performatively, making sure everyone else knew they thought it was hilarious. <a href="https://medium.com/everythings-interesting/passages-review-pleasure-performance-and-fantastic-fashion-8093797acba1">Learn More</a>