BPM (Beats Per Minute) (120 Battements par minute)
Robin Campillo - 2017

 

BPM

CREST THEATRE
Friday, June 22 8:20pm

Screening followed by Q&A with Chris Narloch, film critic at Outword, and Le Professeur Kevin Elstob.

Screening Presented in partnership with

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In French with English subtitles.

BANDE ANNONCE (TRAILER)

AWARDS

- Best Film, Best Supporting Actor (Antoine Reinartz), Most Promising Actor (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Original Music, 2018 César Awards.
- Queer Palm, Grand Prize of the Jury, and the FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes International Film Festival 2017.
- Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), Most Promising Actor (Arnaud Valois), and Best Music, 2018 Lumière Awards.
- Best Film, San Sebastián International Film Festival 2017. 
- Special Jury Mention, LesGaiCineMad, Madrid International LGBT Film Festival 2017.
- Gold Q Hugo Award, Chicago International Film Festival 2017.

- Best Foreign Language Picture, San Francisco Film Critics Circle 2017. 
- Best Foreign Language Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards.
- Best Foreign Film, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2017.
- Best Foreign Language Film, Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards 2017.
- Best Foreign Language Film, Online Film Critics Society Awards 2017.
- Best Foreign Language Film, Indiewire Critics' Poll 2018.
- Best Foreign Film, Central Ohio Film Critics Association 2018.
- Best Foreign Film, Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2017.
- Best Foreign Film, Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association 2018.

REVIEWS

A wrenching love story, set in Paris in the early 1990s, told against the background of ACT-UP AIDS activists fighting for their lives. Robin Campillo's raw and riveting film musters the emotional power to floor you. Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

Robin Campillo's outstanding AIDS activist drama melds the personal, the political and the erotic to heart-bursting effect. Guy Lodge - Variety

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. Bob Mondello - NPR

Even if you consider yourself reasonably well-versed in the history, BPM is a kind of wake-up call, a cinematic alarm against complacency. Glenn Kenny - RogerEbert.com

"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. Ty Burr - Boston Globe

A restless, engrossing dramatic portrait of Parisian activists fighting the AIDS pandemic in the early 1990s. Justin Chang - Los Angeles Times

Director: Robin Campillo

Screenplay: Robin Campillo & Philippe Mangeot

143 min

US Distribution: The Orchard

DRAMA

Not Rated (sexuality, nudity, alcohol & drug use, adult situations)

Cast:
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart: Sean
Arnaud Valois: Nathan
Adèle Haenel: Sophie
Antoine Reinartz: Thibault
Félix Maritaud: Max
Ariel Borenstein: Jérémie
Aloïse Sauvage: Eva
Simon Bourgade: Luc

Screening followed by Q&A with Chris Narloch, film critic at Outword, and Le Professeur Kevin Elstob.

In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists goes to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies in bold, invasive actions. The organization is ACT UP, and its members, many of them gay and HIV-positive, embrace their mission with a literal life-or-death urgency.

Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, newcomer Nathan (Arnaud Valois) falls in love with Sean (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), the group's radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight for a breakthrough.

This long (it lasts more than 2 hours), deeply affecting drama is both a beautiful love story and a document about the beginnings of ACT UP in France. It was nominated for no less than thirteen César Awards and won six of them: Best Film, Best Supporting Actor (Antoine Reinartz), Most Promising Actor (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Original Music. It received awards and prizes all over the world.

Director Robin Campillo co-wrote the screenplay of The Workshop, also presented this year at the SFFF.

Shown with MALIK by Nathan Carli.

CREST THEATRE
Friday, June 22 8:20pm
ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Screening followed by Q&A with Chris Narloch, film critic at Outword, and Le Professeur Kevin Elstob.