120 battements par minute (2017) Directed by Robin Campillo
Drama
aka: BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Film Synopsis
By the early 1990s, the AIDS pandemic has become headline news the world
over, but public awareness of this terrible human disaster does not equate
to genuine concern for the victims - far from it. The group Act Up-Paris
is one of a number of militant organisations that has been created to raise
the profile of AIDS sufferers and combat the spread of HIV through communities
that are most as risk. Nathan has recently joined the group and
is about to be surprised by the extremes to which his fellow campaigners
will go in order to get their message across. One of these militants
is a hot-headed activist named Sean, to whom Nathan is powerfully drawn.
As Sean and Nathan lend their support to a cause that has some way to go before
it gains mainstream acceptance they have their own personal dramas to contend
with...
American film comedy had its heyday in the 1920s and '30s, but it remains an important genre and has given American cinema some of its enduring classics.