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down a certain hall," he said.
Sachs was also gay and closeted
at the time.
Growing up, he strongly identi-
fied with a radical Jewish tradition
that was based on social dissent.
He served as a labor activist at Yale
and, after graduation, began mak-
ing films about people on society's
margins. His acclaimed 1997
movie, The Delta, for example,
revolved around a half-black, half-
Vietnamese gay man in Memphis.
Sachs describes himself as an
"utterly Jewish artist," not only
because of his economic perspec-
tive but also because of his devo-
tion to "the Jewish discipline" of
psychoanalysis: "My film explores,
`What do you lose in the choices
you make and how can you regain
what is lost through self-under-
standing?'"
Nine intensive years on the
couch also helped him resolve
issues with Sachs
senior (bachelor
outings includ-
ed), who now
lives in Park City,
Utah.
"My father was
not volatile like
Rip Torn's charac-
ter, but he had a
similar strength
and position and
created a shadow
Ira Sachs, Dina Korzun and Rip Torn
I needed to
of Forty Shades of Blue
emerge from:'
Sachs said.
While his analysis may have
has illusions and wrong ideas
helped him create exquisitely
about life, and this love story gives
nuanced protagonists, some psy-
her a reason to wake up and start
chiatrists at a New York
to ask questions',' actress Korzun
Psychoanalytic Institute screen-
said.
ing were more interested in the
On a recent Friday at the
director.
Chateau Marmont hotel in Los
"They pointed out:' Sachs said,
Angeles, the affable Sachs, who
"that the structure of the story is
was dressed like a preppie, looked
mythologically Oedipal."
around the opulent lobby and
noted only white faces in sight. He
went on to trace his obsession with
character and class not only to the
backseat of his father's Cadillac,
The Squid and the Whale is
but to his Reform temple in
scheduled
to open Friday,
Memphis. The synagogue empha-
Oct.
28,
at
the Maple Art
sized social action over ritual and
Theatre
in
Bloomfield
empathy for society's outcasts and
Forty
Shades of
Township.
have-nots. While he was one of the
is
scheduled
to open
Blue
"haves',' Sachs identified because
Friday,
Oct.
28,
in
a
one-
he, too, felt marginalized as a
week
run,
at
the
Landmark
Southern Jew.
Main Art Theater in Royal
"I was popular at my all-boys
Oak. (248) 263-2111.
prep school, but I knew I'd have
pennies thrown at me if I walked
class," the director said."But once I
got to know them, I saw that they
had their own innate intelligence,
just a different set of economic
possibilities. For many of these
vvomen, being with a charismatic,
wealthy older man offered finan-
cial security, and access to clout
and power. I also sensed a
repressed anger because there was
so much at stake for these women.
And I became more sympathetic
to the notion of how class affects
character."
The concept eventually led to
Blue, about a sleek Muscovite
(Dina Korzun) who appears to be
the vapid trophy girlfriend of a
hot-tempered Memphis music
producer (Rip Torn). The intimate
drama follows the character as she
awakens to her own needs,
prompted by her affair with her
lover's prodigal son.
"My character is a woman who
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