120 Battements par minute / 120 bpm (beats per minute)

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120 Battements par minute / 120 bpm (beats per minute)

In France in the early 1990s, when the AIDS epidemic was raging, the militant group Act Up made its presence felt in public life in a number of ways. It campaigned for the political authorities to organise better preventive measures or for easier access to be provided to experimental medicines, or simply sought to shake public opinion out of its indifference at a time when people tended to assume that only those on the margins of society – homosexuals, transfusion patients, prisoners and heroin addicts – could be affected by the disease.

Robin Campillo creates a group portrait, drawing inspiration from his own experience as a campaigner, although he particularly focuses on certain characters whose stories he tells. The life of the group is marked by its staunch desire to take action, the questions it raises, its conflicts, its desire to overcome the general apathy or even indifference, the effervescence of its spectacular stunts and the emotional response to a disease which is ineluctably killing people they know, or even killing them.

Organizer / Collaboration: Organized by queer loox
In collaboration with Rotondes
Location: Plateforme
Language: In French with English subtitles

Additional information: As part of Common Ground – 6e Triennale Jeune Création, Luxembourg et Grande Région
About the film:
Dir. Robin Campillo | 2017 | FR | 140’
With Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz