Act up-Paris carried out the anti-AIDS movement in the early 1990s with several measures to combat the disease, most notably anti-public indifference measures. But there seems to be a host of obstacles, the most important being that the new member who has joined the group named Nathan is a newcomer to the group who has been attacked by a very tough man named Sean.
1 January 1989, Paris, France
May 18, 2018
Joins Phantom Thread and Loveless as a monumentally good film of 2018 ... Mention must be made of Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, who reminds me of seeing the young, wild-eyed Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon ... outstanding and should not be missed.November 16, 2017
[BPM] devotes significant screen time to philosophical debate but also appeals to the senses with graphic sex and a throbbing techno score by Arnaud Rebotini.November 16, 2017
"BPM" is often exhilarating and ultimately moving, but it makes few concessions to audiences without a strong preexisting interest in its subject.February 01, 2018
"BPM" is an affecting memorial about being alive and being heard - a movie that says the only things that matter in life are love, righteous struggle, and the joy of being with others. It shakes all three until their atoms get up and dance.November 02, 2017
A restless, engrossing dramatic portrait of Parisian activists fighting the AIDS pandemic in the early 1990s.May 17, 2018
As the film moves fluidly between protests, meetings, club nights, and affairs...we are left with the impression of a time and a place in which nothing, not even death, seems inevitable.May 13, 2018
The storytelling not only has an immediacy, it matches issues to individuals so that the campaigning is never merely about the public profile.May 18, 2018
It doesn't try to be a comforting film, and it certainly isn't. It's strident, unwieldy and confronting.May 18, 2018
And yet BPM (meaning beats per minute) is a beautiful film, full of drama and humour, love and politics, argument and action.April 30, 2018
The film gives off such a vivacious energy that it never feels of the past; it is a moment preserved exactly as it should be.November 17, 2017
[Director] Campillo tries to give both personal and political equal weight (or at least equal screen time), and proves more adept at the latter: never have highly regulated meetings to propose policy and review results been so richly engaging.October 26, 2017
Here, as characters hit the streets for demonstrations, hit the discos to relax and hit the skids when they get sick, you're there with them, pulse pounding out more beats per minute than you might have thought possible.