120 Beats per Minute gets the Grand Prix
Cannot wait to see this.
[quote]120 Beats per Minute gets the Grand Prix
[quote]It is one of the very best films at Cannes: a defiant, passionate, heartwrenching and in its way euphoric movie about the ACT UP movement in Paris in the late 80s and early 90s, campaigning aggressively for the complacent political establishment and bland careerists of Big Pharma to do something about Aids research. It is a film whose emotional force builds progressively through the film; appropriately, its heartbeat maintains a steady, accumulative intensity. The largely unknown cast were all superb. It’s a film I can’t wait to see again when it is released in the UK.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 8, 2018 9:28 AM
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Other awards:
Palme d’Or: “The Square” (Ruben Östlund)
70th Anniversary Award: Nicole Kidman
Grand Prix: “BPM (Beats Per Minute)” (Robin Campillo)
Director: Sofia Coppola, “The Beguiled”
Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, “You Were Never Really Here”
Actress: Diane Kruger, “In the Fade”
Jury Prize: “Loveless” (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Screenplay — TIE: “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou) and “You Were Never Really Here” (Lynne Ramsay)
OTHER PRIZES
Camera d’Or: “Jeune femme” (Montparnasse-Bienvenüe) (Léonor Serraille)
Short Films Palme d’Or: “Xiao Cheng Er Yue” (Qiu Yang)
Short Films Special Mention: “Katto” (Teppo Airaksinen)
Golden Eye Documentary Prize: “Faces Places” (Visages Villages) (Agnès Varda, JR)
Ecumenical Jury Prize: “Radiance” (Naomi Kawase)
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 28, 2017 8:34 PM
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Apparently it's the very first gay-centric film about AIDS!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 28, 2017 8:45 PM
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Here is the first trailer:
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 28, 2017 9:06 PM
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Is this another piece of shit like "When We Rise"?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 28, 2017 9:14 PM
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I was sold the second I heard Bronski Beat in the trailer. I'm there!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 28, 2017 9:20 PM
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It looks great. Do we know if it will open in the US?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 28, 2017 9:32 PM
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Just saw it in London. It is a really good piece of cinema - I'd say better than Normal Heart, which was already pretty good.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 7, 2017 9:33 PM
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[quote] defiant, passionate, heartwrenching and in its way euphoric movie about the ACT UP movement in Paris in the late 80s and early 90s, campaigning aggressively for the complacent political establishment and bland careerists of Big Pharma to do something
I notice they don't mention "entertaining". But then few political polemics are.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 7, 2017 10:36 PM
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Did this ever open in the USA?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 19, 2018 2:09 AM
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It should win Best Foreign Language Film but was bewilderingly not forwarded to the pool of 10 semi finalists. best dramatic film about AIDS I've seen (granted, it's a small pool).
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 19, 2018 2:13 AM
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I won't see this film because I avoid award-bait movies like fire but this guy looks so hot. I've always had a thing for men with dumbo ears:
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 19, 2018 2:23 AM
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It's a great film. Very touching.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 8, 2018 6:35 AM
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Wasn’t as good as I was expecting but still great.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 8, 2018 8:12 AM
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I couldn't go through it again.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 8, 2018 9:28 AM
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