120 BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017)
(120 battements par minute)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 143m
Director: Robin Campillo
Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz
Synopsis:
In the 1990s, a young gay man joins a politically engaged group agitating for more urgent research into AIDS treatments, and targeting pharmaceutical companies for their alleged conspiracy of secrecy regarding testing of their products. Meanwhile he starts a relationship with one of the more radical members, who is HIV positive.
Review:
This absurdly over-extended commercial dud is a curious choice nearly three decades after the events depicted, unless little has changed since, which is not made clear. Alternating between scenes of strident debate, guerrilla-style protest and boy-on-boy lovemaking, it comes across as queer agitprop unlikely to win many converts. Try Dallas Buyers Club instead.
(120 battements par minute)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 143m
Director: Robin Campillo
Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz
Synopsis:
In the 1990s, a young gay man joins a politically engaged group agitating for more urgent research into AIDS treatments, and targeting pharmaceutical companies for their alleged conspiracy of secrecy regarding testing of their products. Meanwhile he starts a relationship with one of the more radical members, who is HIV positive.
Review:
This absurdly over-extended commercial dud is a curious choice nearly three decades after the events depicted, unless little has changed since, which is not made clear. Alternating between scenes of strident debate, guerrilla-style protest and boy-on-boy lovemaking, it comes across as queer agitprop unlikely to win many converts. Try Dallas Buyers Club instead.
(120 battements par minute)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 143m
Director: Robin Campillo
Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz
Synopsis:
In the 1990s, a young gay man joins a politically engaged group agitating for more urgent research into AIDS treatments, and targeting pharmaceutical companies for their alleged conspiracy of secrecy regarding testing of their products. Meanwhile he starts a relationship with one of the more radical members, who is HIV positive.
Review:
This absurdly over-extended commercial dud is a curious choice nearly three decades after the events depicted, unless little has changed since, which is not made clear. Alternating between scenes of strident debate, guerrilla-style protest and boy-on-boy lovemaking, it comes across as queer agitprop unlikely to win many converts. Try Dallas Buyers Club instead.