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Les Temoins The witnesses

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  • "In the 1980's, a group of French Parisians deal with the onset of the AIDS epidemic."
  • ""Paris, été 1984. Manu débarque à Paris, où il partage la chambre de sa soeur Julie dans un hôtel modeste. Il fera la connaissance d'Adrien et nouera une amitié chaste et joyeuse avec ce médecin quinquagénaire, qui lui fera découvrir le style de vie de son milieu. Au cours d'une balade en bateau, Adrien présentera à Manu Sarah et Mehdi, un couple de jeunes mariés qui vient d'avoir son premier enfant. Une passion amoureuse imprévue et l'irruption de l'épidémie du sida, encore perçue dans les médias et l'imaginaire collectif comme une peste moderne et honteuse vont bouleverser le tranquille agencement de ces destins particuliers. Chacun va devenir acteur et témoin d'un drame contemporain, où ceux qui ne mourront pas ressortiront peut-être plus forts, mais en tout cas pas indemnes."--Boîtier."
  • ""This story covers the overlapping stories of a group of French Parisiens who discover the reality of the Aids epidemic through their complex relations with a young man, Manu. The story unfolds through the complex interactions arranged as scenes as they interact with the character Manu as Sister, Lover, Friend, confidante and even rival as their already difficult relationships become crystallised by his premature diagnosis and inevitably demise. Each character has their life priorities questioned and they are forced into re-evaluation of the very basic tenets to which they had hitherto held self evident. The Doctor calls Manu his "Eros" and this self deprecating and lonely man is infused with vicarious energy at the simple prescence of this charasmatic individual who with devastating simplicity wins over the cynical underworld of sexplotation and their even harder protagonists in the shape of the Chief of Police. He is inviolate, kind, demonstrative and unafraid and takes joy in the simple pleasures of life until he must deal with the horror of his prognosis. Numerous sub stories link the individual struggles of characters to exist, to create, to advance their careers and even to crusade with Manu the keystone enabling these stories to provide context for this thoughtful retrospective of the reality of the mindset at the beginning of this 'war' against AIDS."--IMDb website."
  • "Feature film from France. Drama. Portrays the lives and loves of a group of Parisiens directly affected by the outbreak of AIDS."
  • "The lives of a writer, her boyfriend, a well-known doctor, and an attractive gay man all intersect when they are faced with the AIDS epidemic during the sexual revolution in the early 1980s."
  • ""Manu arrives in Paris with his sister and strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties who opens Manu's eyes to a different way of life. An unplanned love affair and the onset of the AIDS epidemic - seen by the media and in the collective imagination as a shameful, modern-day plague - upset the ordered tranquility of their individual destinies."--Boîtier."

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  • "Fiction films"
  • "Drama"
  • "DVD-Video discs"
  • "Foreign films"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Motion pictures, French"
  • "Medical"
  • "Feature films"

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  • "Les Temoins The witnesses"
  • "Les témoins The witnesses"

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