spotlight FRANCE’S AIDS BIOPIC


THIS OSCAR CONTENDER IS ALREADY A WINNER by chris carpenter


A number of powerful films depicting the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis are rightly consid-


ered classics. Parting Glances, And The Band Played On, Longtime Companion andPhiladelphia helped to open the world’s eyes and hearts before there were any treatments for HIV infection. We can now add to this list Robin Campillo’s excellent addition,BPM (Beats Per Minute). The new movie, which is France’s submission in the Best Foreign Language Film for this year’s Academy Awards, is a painfully vivid, but life-affirming and inspiring portrait of the ACT UP movement in early 1990s Paris. A brave group of male and female activists goes to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies in bold, invasive actions modeled after New York’s ACT UP chapter. The activists, many of them gay and HIV-positive, embrace their mission with a literal life-or-death urgency.


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