Les nuits fauves
Two major films of French cinema take us back to the 1980s and 1990s when AIDS, the grim reaper, brutally struck the LGBTQ+ community. In Les nuits fauves (1992), Cyril Collard, himself infected, depicts with a kind of lyricism of despair his condition and the last years of his life (he died a few months after the film’s release). More recently, 120 beats per minute (2017), by Robin Campillo, recalls with passion the circumstances surrounding the birth and the fights of the militant group Act Up-Paris. On the agenda: emotion and the feeling that other urgent battles remain to be fought.
An AIDS patient engages in an affair with a debutante actress while pursuing a relationship with a homosexual.
Cyril Collard
Cyril Collard was a French author, filmmaker, composer, musician and actor. He is known for his unapologetic portrayals of bisexuality and HIV in art, particularly his autobiographical novel and film Les nuits Fauves (Savage Nights). Openly bisexual, Collard was also one of the first French artists to speak openly about his HIV-positive status. Wikipedia.
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