120 beats per minute, by Robin Campillo
Shock film of the year 2017, the drama by French director Robin Campillo retraces the great years of mobilization of the Act-Up association in the early 1990s.
Following a group of activists involved in the association, the film focuses on the love story between Sean and Nathan. In the midst of the various actions carried out by the association, including outlet parties, explosive encounters and demonstrations, the film unfolds a gallery of characters who accompany the loving duo.
Brought to you by a five star casting, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz or Felix Maritaud, 120 beats per minute takes us into the emergency of activists fighting for their survival and dignity. A film as extravagant as it is necessary.
Wild Nights, by Cyril Collard
Jean, a successful young cinematographer, is seduced by the brilliant Laura during a casting. While a passion is born between the two, Laura discovers that Jean is HIV positive and that she too could be infected.
Nominated for the Césars in 1993, Wild nights realizes a double enterprise, winning both the César for best film and best first feature (a category since renamed best first feature). Exceptional in every way, novelist Cyril Collard’s first and only film stands out for the autobiographical strength of its story. Having died three days before the ceremony from complications due to AIDS, he is the only director to have received a posthumous César for best film.
Brought by a young man Romane Borhinger and Collard himself in the main role, the feature film gets more than two million viewers, proof of the need to talk about a topic that was still taboo in French society in the early 1990s.
The Dallas Buyers Club, by Jean-Marc Vallée
Dallas, 1985, the cowboy Ron Woodroof, straight, cocaine addict and cliché of the homophobic macho fan of paid sex, discovers that he is HIV positive. Initially violently rejecting the diagnosis, he subsequently inquired about treatments. AZT, the only drug licensed at the time, was ineffective and dangerous for patients. He then begins smuggling medicines to Mexico, aided by Rayon, a young transgender and HIV-positive woman.
Together they founded the Dallas Buyers Club, one of twelve American clubs that allowed patients to obtain drugseven if the American agency in charge of managing the drugs tries to shut them down.
Multiple Oscar winner, Dallas Buyers Club traces the journey of real personalities, including that of Ron Woodroof played by Matthew McConaughey, and creates a great film about organization and solidarity in the face of disease.
Jeanne and the Wonderful Boy, by Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel
Jeanne, a young receptionist in a company, is bored and collects lovers. One day, on the subway, she meets Olivier, a charming young man for whom love at first sight is mutual and immediate. However, Olivier is suffering from AIDS. And he doesn’t want Jeanne to find out.
Released in theaters this year, this one musical comedy that brings together the very young Virginie Ledoyen and Mathieu Demy is one of the flagship works of duo Ducastel and Martineaua couple of filmmakers whose filmography is crossed by the theme of AIDS.
Jeanne and the wonderful boy it is part of the continuity of films as sublime as they are tragic about the disease that makes love impossible.
Please Love and Run Fast, by Christophe Honoré
In the summer of 1993, Arthur, a young student from Rennes, meets Jacques, a slightly older Parisian writer, passing through the city. As the two lovers say goodbye early in the morning, Arthur desperately wants to see Jacques again. Weakened by illness, he doesn’t have much time left to live and avoids his lover who comes to visit him in Paris.
Brought to you by the brilliant duo that forms Vincent Lacoste and Pierre Deladonchampsthis film is one of the director’s best, both in form, all in blue tones and refined playlist, and in substance, a delicate love story between Rennes and Paris.
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