Sunday 13th January at 5pm The Witnesses (15)
Dir. André Téchiné
France 2007 114 mins Subtitles
Boyd van Hoeij, the talented reviewer of european-films.net,
sums up Les Témoins extremely well: 'This multi-layered
story set in the 1980s focuses on the contrasts between
illness and health, sex and romance, friendship and companionship
and the fluidity of all these categories in the face of
the capriciousness of both life and the humans who get to
live it to tell the tale...
More importantly, it is not strictly about AIDS but "just"
about human beings trying to get on with life for however
long it may last and -- if they are lucky -- bear witness
to the strength and complexity of the human spirit.'
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"A fast-moving, engrossing multiple-character drama
that brings the AIDS crisis of the 1980s into laser focus."
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