The wonder of Robin Campillo’s film, set in Paris in the early 1990s, is the sure-footed way it combines polemics and historical reconstructions with melodrama, as Campillo focuses on the stories of a handful of the activists.
Every frame bursts with energy and emotion.
Fly on the wall filmmaking at its best, this is pure cinema — an enthralling, enveloping experience that seizes you fully, effortlessly mixing politics, sex, life, death and art.
Personal experience is transformed into a fiercely authentic and deeply emotional epic.
French director Robin Campillo succeeds in uniting personal and political to electrifying effect.
120 BPM director Robin Campillo.
Robin Campillo: 'I love to film things that seem impure in cinema'.
Giant condoms and buckets of fake blood: the true story of Aids activists Act Up
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday April 6, 2018, until Thursday April 12, 2018. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/
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