Sachs and co-writer Mauricio Zacharias tell IndieWire about the beauty and horror of gay life in 1980s NYC, and borrowing their film’s title from the 1941 Raoul Walsh classic. In Ira Sachs ’ new film “ The Man I Love ,” which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival , Rami Malek stars as Jimmy George, a fictional New York performance artist in the downtown experimental theater scene of the late 1980s. Ahead of their premiere, Sachs and his longtime writing partner Mauricio Zacharias