120 Beats per Minute
120 battements par minute · dir. Robin Campillo
France 2017, 140’
28 October, 17:30 · Cinema City – room 6
In the film by Robin Campillo, we see a clash between euphoria and despair, and a faster heart beat resembles the ticking of a clock counting the time. And in fact it is about a race against the clock, indeed: the film is set in the early 90s, when the AIDS epidemic is wreaking havoc in France with the silent consent of the government and pharmaceutical companies. Activists from a Paris-based ACT UP group are struggling to break the conspiracy of silence that surrounds the disease, by organising various actions, marches, and happenings.
| Director: | Robin Campillo |
| Screenplay: | Robin Campillo, Philippe Mangeot |
| Music: | Arnaud Rebotini |
| Cinematography: | Jeanne Lapoirie |
| Editing: | Robin Campillo, Stephanie Leger, Anita Roth |
| Cast: | Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Yves Heck, Emmanuel Ménard |
| Producers: | Hugues Charbonneau, Marie-Ange Luciani |
| Production: | Les Films de Pierre |
| Distribution: | Gutek Film |
| Awards: | MFF w Cannes / Cannes FF – Grand Prix Festiwalu, Nagroda FIPRESCI, Palma „Queer”, Nagroda im. Françios Chalais / The Grand Prix, the FIPRESCI Award, the Queer Palm, the Francois Chalais Prize (2017) |
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