French Film BEATS PER MINUTE

What a wonderful, heartbreaking, invigorating film. I saw it tonight and cannot recommend it highly enough.

"The Square" did not deserve the Palme d'Or over "BPM."

Is this film flying under everyone's radar?

R2 Critics love it but DLers... not so much. I guess everyone expects it to be a depressing movie when it's really not.

[quote]when it's really not.

I agree. I found it incredibly life-affirming.

Only one cinema in NYC is showing it. I'm surprised no one else has picked this up.

The Russian film "Loveless," a fellow Cannes competitor, was also better than "The Square."

Links actual people's lives to important social movements.

@BarryJenkins ‏ ...BPM is also just a really terrific damn film. And it’s deceptive because the “beats” are so very big and “dramatic” and yet... there’s so much of what seasoned dimplomats refer to as “soft power” at play. Little gestures of the eye (the characters’ and ours) that flutter by

I'm just gonna post all of Jenkins' thoughts on this movie:

[quote]So... BPM is pretty damn extraordinary

[quote]Between SUGARMAN so soundly besting HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE and this not even making the shortlist, I truly don’t know what to make of it all....

[quote]And while it is IMPORTANT AS HELL, especially right now, to see a film based on factual events featuring YOUNG PEOPLE literally fighting for their lives, fighting for all our lives honestly, against bigotry and bigoted bureaucratic policy (not to mention corporate greed)...

[quote]...while all that is super important and SUPER relevant for folks young and old NOW to see embedded within a work of art... just the symbolic importance and POWER of a body recognizing and showcasing THAT in and of itself...

[quote]...BPM is also just a really terrific damn film. And it’s deceptive because the “beats” are so very big and “dramatic” and yet... there’s so much of what seasoned diplomats refer to as “soft power” at play. Little gestures of the eye (the characters’ and ours) that flutter by

[quote]Obviously I loved it. And I just wonder how this not THE film of the moment? Is it because we’re shown cum on a dying man’s chest? We placed it in the sand in Moonlight because that felt true and natural in the environment but... maybe @guylodge has a point 👀

[quote]But here we are: the artists continue on and so I can only thank Robin Campillo and everyone for making this wonderful film. As someone who’s mother was diagnosed HIV+ in the early 90s and IS STILL WITH US, I’m biased and thankful for ACT UP and this moving testament to them 🙌🏿

Oh, I forgot these two:

[quote]Fuuuuuuuuuuug I just had to pause BPM because this scene just destroyed me. DE.....STROYED. I shouldn’t drink because it’s late but I need to room service a glass of something before I head back in. Damn.

[quote]No, the very simple scene where they’re discussing moving in together. The patience and sensitivity of the dialogue, so many layers in what’s said, such care. And the juxtaposition with what’s visually occurring on screen. I have my wine now. I needed it after that. WOW

I love him.

I wonder if they’ll use the word “queer”. Can DLers handle that?

Cum on a dying man’s chest??? Is there something you bitches haven’t told me about CMBYN???

R12 Ha! I had to read that part twice before I figured he was referring to BPM, not trash talking CMBYN. Which he liked but doesn't really talk about on Twitter.

[quote]Which he liked but doesn't really talk about on Twitter.

I spoke too soon and would just like to leave this here for posterity:

[quote]CALL ME BY YOUR NAME — sweetness without a trace of sentimentality; a work made without fear of sentimentality. Sweetness beside sex. Sex that transmutes love. An intellectually rigorous examination that never loses warmth. Earnest, mature and endearing the whole way through.

[quote]Refreshing to see a work that aligns curiosity, fear and courage side by side, image to image, human beings drifting from one emotion to the next and back, revealing and retreating from themselves, from life; all of us capable of so much, but allowing ourselves so very little.

[quote]And I’m glad I waited to see it in a theatre. Had no idea it was shot on emulsion. I may be reaching, but there’s a tension between the grain and the focus here. A delicate tension for sure. A struggle to resolve. A fleeting, elegiac struggle to resolve.

I do find it funny that he praised it the day after Luca Guadagnino praised Moonlight in an interview for IndieWire. That's just how the biz works, I guess.

Anyway, back to the great [bold]BPM[/bold]!

Excellent!

Je l'adore!

It's on torrent

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passionate and defiant account of 80s Aids activism

Ordered it. Thanks.

A good film and an important one, although my head hurt from all of them talking over each for over two hours straight.

Saw it last night. Exceptional, truly incredible performances, unbelievably moving without melodrama or mawkishness. What a gift it is to just be alive today. And what immense gratitude is owed to those warriors who fought and lived and died while the plague raged around them.

Film mostly depicts French people arguing with one another, in unflattering lighting and lots of sick-making camera moves.

I just can't with the AIDS movies.

I was deeply traumatized by them as a kid and young adult and just can't anymore.

Try living through it, snowflake.

The French talked and smoked too much, it's nauseating. The film was such a boring gabfest.