BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Robin Campillo's outstanding AIDS activist drama melds the personal, the political and the erotic to heart-bursting effect.
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists goes to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies in bold, invasive actions. The organization is ACT UP, and its members, many of them gay and HIV-positive, embrace their mission with a literal life-or-death urgency. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, the newcomer Nathan falls in love with Sean, the group’s radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight for a breakthrough.
Genre
Drama,
LGBT,
French Cinema
Runtime
144
Language
French
Director
Robin Campillo
Cast
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart,
Arnaud Valois,
Adèle Haenel
Awards:
Nominee, Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, Queer Palm, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
A wrenching love story, set in Paris in the early 1990s, told against the background of HIV/AIDS activists battling against government and pharmaceutical indifference as they fight for their lives. The group is ACT UP-Paris and the movie is 'BPM (Beats Per Minute),' an impassioned and incendiary cry ...
Played at
Royal 11.03.17 - 11.16.17
Playhouse 7 11.03.17 - 11.16.17
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