With HIV infection once again on the rise among a whole new generation of young gay men who remain blissfully, fatally unaware of the recent past, Andre Techine's drama about AIDS in the 80s is not the historical look back at he might have intended. Sadly, it's become tragically relevant.
Paris, 1984. Manu (Johan Libereau) is a strikingly handsome young man from a small town in the Pyrenees who shows up unannounced on the doorstep of his sister, Julie (Julie Depardieu), an aspiring opera singer. Since her own arrival in Paris, Julie has been living in the red-light district of the city in a seedy residential hotel that in reality is little more than a broth...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
112 mins