In 1981, AIDS was officially defined as a disease. A decade later, a wave of films set in. We introduce you to “120 BPM”, one of the best works on the subject and look at the current movie “Sorry Angel”.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Award-winning: 120 BPM
In the past year, the Drama “120 BPM won” the “Grand Jury prize” at the world’s most important film festival in Cannes. Director Robin Campillo tells of the love of two young AIDS activists. The French Director is a sensitive and cinematically interesting approach to a difficult topic.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
First of all, serene: Sorry Angel
Campillos country man Christophe Honoré, the most recent Film on the topic of AIDS, “Sorry Angel” celebrated at the film festival in Cannes (2018) world premiere. The Film tells of the friendship of two gay men at the beginning of the 1990s in France. Honoré also deals in novels and theater pieces with the theme.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Displacement: Longtime Companion (1989)
American and French films, the first with the theme. “Longtime Companion” by Norman René is considered to be one of the first productions, which described the HI-Virus triggered a disease. It is the story of eight gay New York friends at the beginning of the 1980s. A theme of the film: the displacement of AIDS in individuals and in society.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Autobiographical: Wild Nights (1992)
The theme of the displacement of AIDS, it is also in “Wild nights”. The French Director and starring Cyril Collard, had published his auto-biographically colored novel in 1989, and three years later from the fabric of a Film. In the title role Collard, plays a Bisexual who has no consideration for himself and his Partner. Collard died in 1993.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Oscar Decorated: Philadelphia (1993)
Jonathan Demme’s Film “Philadelphia” was the first major Hollywood production that AIDS has brought to a wide audience on the screen. Tom Hanks plays a lawyer whose position is terminated because he is ill. In court he wants to sit down to the Weir. The Film is melodramatic and sentimental, but very effectively staged. AIDS was now arrived in the big Hollywood movies.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Semidoku fragmentary: …and life goes on (1993)
Philadelphia was in the style of big Hollywood movies are staged, dam of in the same year launched “…and the life goes on a ride” by Roger Spottiswoode another way. The movie tried to use the documentary resources, the spread of the disease to many different locations. The young AIDS researcher Dr. Don Francis, played by Matthew Modine.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Controversial: Kids (1995)
With documentary resources, the movie “Kids”, which was created two years later worked. Director Larry Clark designed the Panorama of a youth culture in New York in the 1990s. Sex is one of the main topics of the young girls and boys, the subject of AIDS. Controversial the Film was, because he developed with underage performers to very drastic scenes.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Melodramatic: All about my mother (1999)
Spain Director-As Pedro Almodóvar told in 1999, in the for him typical style of life, Suffering and the love of a handful of protagonists in Madrid and Barcelona. “All about my mother” is a Melodrama with a lot of feeling and Emotion, gender roles, and social prejudices. Also in “All about my mother” plays the theme of AIDS a Central role.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Review: We were the witnesses (2007)
In the early 80s, the Frenchman André Téchiné looked back in, “We were witnesses.” In France, the disease spreads, the protagonists, the Téchiné presents the viewer will be confronted in different situations with AIDS. “We are witnesses” were not celebrated at the Berlinale for the Premiere, but managed, despite Stars like Emmanuelle Béart the jump in the German cinemas.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
AIDS Global: Same Same But Different (2009)
The German cinema dealt with AIDS. Rosa von Praunheim, the 1986 fact, in typical anarchist fashion with “A Virus knows no morals” is very early and first. Director Detlef Buck turned in 2009, the movie “Same Same But Different”, which shows a love between a young German (David Kross, and our image) and a Cambodian prostitute.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Actors Movie: Dallas Buyers Club (2014)
Had great success Jean four years ago, the Film “Dallas Buyers Club” of the canadian Director-Marc Vallée. Matthew McConaughey (R) and Jared Leto Shine as two HIV-infected protagonists, who strive in the America of the 1980s, effective AIDS drugs. For the two actors, the Oscars 2014 awards for best male performer.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Award-winning: 120 BPM
In the past year, the Drama “120 BPM won” the “Grand Jury prize” at the world’s most important film festival in Cannes. Director Robin Campillo tells of the love of two young AIDS activists. The French Director is a sensitive and cinematically interesting approach to a difficult topic.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
First of all, serene: Sorry Angel
Campillos country man Christophe Honoré, the most recent Film on the topic of AIDS, “Sorry Angel” celebrated at the film festival in Cannes (2018) world premiere. The Film tells of the friendship of two gay men at the beginning of the 1990s in France. Honoré also deals in novels and theater pieces with the theme.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Displacement: Longtime Companion (1989)
American and French films, the first with the theme. “Longtime Companion” by Norman René is considered to be one of the first productions, which described the HI-Virus triggered a disease. It is the story of eight gay New York friends at the beginning of the 1980s. A theme of the film: the displacement of AIDS in individuals and in society.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Autobiographical: Wild Nights (1992)
The theme of the displacement of AIDS, it is also in “Wild nights”. The French Director and starring Cyril Collard, had published his auto-biographically colored novel in 1989, and three years later from the fabric of a Film. In the title role Collard, plays a Bisexual who has no consideration for himself and his Partner. Collard died in 1993.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Oscar Decorated: Philadelphia (1993)
Jonathan Demme’s Film “Philadelphia” was the first major Hollywood production that AIDS has brought to a wide audience on the screen. Tom Hanks plays a lawyer whose position is terminated because he is ill. In court he wants to sit down to the Weir. The Film is melodramatic and sentimental, but very effectively staged. AIDS was now arrived in the big Hollywood movies.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Semidoku fragmentary: …and life goes on (1993)
Philadelphia was in the style of big Hollywood movies are staged, dam of in the same year launched “…and the life goes on a ride” by Roger Spottiswoode another way. The movie tried to use the documentary resources, the spread of the disease to many different locations. The young AIDS researcher Dr. Don Francis, played by Matthew Modine.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Controversial: Kids (1995)
With documentary resources, the movie “Kids”, which was created two years later worked. Director Larry Clark designed the Panorama of a youth culture in New York in the 1990s. Sex is one of the main topics of the young girls and boys, the subject of AIDS. Controversial the Film was, because he developed with underage performers to very drastic scenes.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Melodramatic: All about my mother (1999)
Spain Director-As Pedro Almodóvar told in 1999, in the for him typical style of life, Suffering and the love of a handful of protagonists in Madrid and Barcelona. “All about my mother” is a Melodrama with a lot of feeling and Emotion, gender roles, and social prejudices. Also in “All about my mother” plays the theme of AIDS a Central role.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Review: We were the witnesses (2007)
In the early 80s, the Frenchman André Téchiné looked back in, “We were witnesses.” In France, the disease spreads, the protagonists, the Téchiné presents the viewer will be confronted in different situations with AIDS. “We are witnesses” were not celebrated at the Berlinale for the Premiere, but managed, despite Stars like Emmanuelle Béart the jump in the German cinemas.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
AIDS Global: Same Same But Different (2009)
The German cinema dealt with AIDS. Rosa von Praunheim, the 1986 fact, in typical anarchist fashion with “A Virus knows no morals” is very early and first. Director Detlef Buck turned in 2009, the movie “Same Same But Different”, which shows a love between a young German (David Kross, and our image) and a Cambodian prostitute.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDS
Actors Movie: Dallas Buyers Club (2014)
Had great success Jean four years ago, the Film “Dallas Buyers Club” of the canadian Director-Marc Vallée. Matthew McConaughey (R) and Jared Leto Shine as two HIV-infected protagonists, who strive in the America of the 1980s, effective AIDS drugs. For the two actors, the Oscars 2014 awards for best male performer.
France in the mid 1980s when The country is rocked by a blood scandal. There are many Dead. The topic of AIDS is no longer overlooked after an early Phase of social displacement. The French Film “120 BPM”, looks back in those years, was celebrated in 2017 at the Cannes film festival as one of the best posts. At the end of 120 BPM got “” the “Grand Jury prize”.
AIDS is, for many French Directors of a topic
Between 1983 and 1995, died in France, around 30,000 people with AIDS. About this time, as in our neighbouring country, the people had to more and more with the consequences of immunodeficiency triggered by HIV, André Téchiné already turned out ten years ago, a movie. “We are witnesses” were celebrated in the February 2007 world premiere at the Berlin film festival. “We were witnesses,” was prominently occupied among other things with Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart. In his home country, the Film got the prestigious award “Prix Louis Delluc”.
However, “We were witnesses,” came in spite of good reviews in Germany, never in the cinema. Ten years later, téchiné’s compatriot Robin Campillo has, once again, with that time, and the spreading AIDS epidemic in France apart – a Director’s concept. The Director relies on Stars and something transfiguring-melancholy mood and scenes in the beautiful South of France, venues, how it was done Téchiné.
“120 BPM” goes under the skin
With largely unknown performers Campillo has staged an impressive and very emotional Film: “120 BPM” goes under the skin. In the Original Film “120 battements par Minute” (120 beats per Minute) Campillos – for both the fast rhythm of the film, as well as for the sense of life of young people.
The Central question in “120 BPM”: What to do with the paralysis in society?
At the film festival in Cannes, the Jury of the festival in the past year, deeply impressed and gave the contribution that was previously been used as a co-favorite for the Palme d’or traded, the “Grand Jury prize”. For the 1962 Moroccan-born Director, an experienced cut master and writer, meant to “120 BPM”, the processing of the personal life section. In an Interview with the German press Agency (dpa) revealed Campillo: “I was afraid to turn the Film, because I wanted to be with my story of the Survivors of this tragedy.”
Views of an ignorant society
In particular, it went to the Director to the members of the so-called “Act Up”movement, the end of the 1980s, first in the United States-based interest group that wanted to carry the theme of AIDS in the General Public. In France, too, many of those Affected, HIV-Infected and homosexual for a greater attention in the society and founded the French branch of the “Act Up engaged in these years”. Long politicians, business representatives and large parts of the society had tried to the immense impact of HIV / AIDS to downplay. Were no longer willing to accept many of those Affected.
“120 BPM” is also a Film about friendships and love
Campillo tells in his Film, from the beginnings of the “Act Up”movement in France, of first meetings, in the direction of fight and discussions of the participants and the anarchist and militant struggle against an apathetic policy and morally reprehensible machinations of the pharmaceutical industry. Especially the scandal of contaminated blood shook the mid-1980s, the country.
Campillo: “I wanted to fight against my fear of AIDS”
In the second part of the film drama the film then concentrates on the love of two members of “Act Up”movement in the center. Especially important is the lack of information is to him at the time: “I was a member of the AIDS activist group ‘Act Up’,” says Campillo in the Ticker Interview: “I came in 1992/1993, because I wanted to fight against my fear of the disease, because I wanted to educate the Public. The company was established in the 1990s, completely in the dark.” “120 BPM” is now Robin Campillos response, and processing on the events of that time.