120 BPM

Movie
German title	120 BPM
Original title	120 battements per minute
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	2017
length	143 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16 ; JMK 14
Rod
Director	Robin Campillo
script	Robin Campillo
production	Hugues Charbonneau , ; Marie-Ange Luciani
music	Arnaud Rebotini
camera	Jeanne Lapoirie
cut	Robin Campillo , ; Stephanie Leger , ; Anita Roth
occupation
	Nahuel Pérez Biscayart : Sean Dalmazo; Arnaud Valois : Nathan; Adèle Haenel : Sophie; Antoine Reinartz : Thibault; Félix Maritaud : Max;

120 BPM (original title 120 battements par minute , French for "120 beats per minute", English-language festival title: BPM (Beats Per Minute) ) is a French film drama by Robin Campillo that will be released on May 20, 2017 as part of the Cannes International Film Festival celebrated its world premiere, competed there in the international competition for the Palme d' Or and was released in French cinemas on August 23, 2017.

action

In Paris in the 1990s. An activist group from Act Up , an interest group that originally came into being in New York in 1987, which aims to bring more dynamism and politicization to the thematization of AIDS through new publicity campaigns and to exert political pressure through lobbying work, is also calling for France to oppose the Illness more anti-AIDS research, education and care. Above all the radical Sean Dalmazo from Act Up Paris, who, together with the leader Thibault, the ambitious Sophie and Nathan, who is new to the group, hijacks classrooms for awareness campaigns and throws water bombs filled with fake blood against the walls of research facilities. Soon a love affair develops between Sean, who is already suffering from AIDS, and Nathan.

production

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart on the nomination for the César 2018

Adèle Haenel at the premiere for the film in Cannes

Robin Campillo at the Cabourg Film Festival 2017

Antoine Reinartz announcing the nomination as part of the César 2018

Arnaud Valois announcing the nomination for the César 2018

Staff and cast

Directed by Robin Campillo , who also wrote the screenplay for the film. Campillo was a member of Act Up Paris from April 1992 . "Even at the first meeting I was deeply impressed by the exuberant temperament of the group," recalls the director. “It's a movie about Act Up's time when we stopped being the nice gays. We wanted to be more than just victims. Our actions turned us into nasty gays and dirty lesbians. We had to change society's perception of this epidemic! ”Campillo further describes the actions as a process of collective self-empowerment, since they were labeled as those who would die anyway. There was also no communication from the government with them.

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart stars as Sean Dalmazo, Arnaud Valois plays Nathan, and Adèle Haenel played Sophie. Antoine Reinartz plays Thibault, the leader of the group.

Film music and publication

The soundtrack was composed by Arnaud Rebotini . The soundtrack for the film includes 17 pieces of music and was released by Because Music on August 23, 2017.

The film celebrated its world premiere on May 20, 2017 as part of the Cannes International Film Festival , where it competed in the international competition for the Palme d' Or. The film was released in French cinemas on August 23, 2017. As part of the LUX film award, the film was shown at the Venice Film Festival in September 2017 . Also in September 2017 he was seen at the Toronto International Film Festival . In September 2017 the film was shown at the San Sebastián International Film Festival . The film was shown at the Zurich Film Festival in September and October 2017 and then presented at the Hamburg Film Festival , where it was nominated for the Art Cinema Award. In November 2017 he was presented at the Queericht-LGBTI-Filmfestival Bern . A theatrical release in Germany took place on November 30, 2017.

reception

Age rating

In Germany the film is FSK 16 . The reason for the release states: “The film traces the historical events in a style that often appears to be documentary and focuses on its protagonists and their sometimes illegal actions. For children and adolescents under 16 years of age, the haunting portrayal of illness and death can have an overwhelming effect, while 16-year-olds are able to distance themselves sufficiently due to their level of development. They can process individual, sensitively staged sex scenes as well as reflect the ambivalence of some characters and the tragic aspects of the event, so that the enlightening attitude of the film opens up to them. "

Reviews

The film has so far won over 98 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 8 out of a possible 10 points. It is also one of the top 10 best LGBT films of all time.

Brigitte Kleine from Das Erste explains that Robin Campillo had erected a memorial to the French act-up fighters in his film: " 120 BPM is a film about fighting - against the bigotry of society, the ignorance of politics, the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, against illness and death. "

Sonia Neufeld from ORF thinks that Campillo knew how to bring the times when polemics still had to be sent by fax to the screen full of energy and physicality. However, his talent as a director and screenwriter comes into play when the deeply personal story between Sean and Nathan develops on the edge of the revolution and ends in the sad and yet completely unkitschy image of a blood-red Seine, Neufeld continues.

Variety's Guy Lodge says Campillo's outstanding AIDS activist drama combines the personal, the political and the erotic in a heartbreaking way.

Gerhard Midding from epd Film says that it would be narrative dishonest not to closely accompany dying on this subject and explains: “Sean is HIV positive, Nathan is not. Campillo takes a lot of time for the two, which he uses carefully. Their love scenes are intimate, their curiosity for one another flows into a deep, wistful, defensive confidentiality. Nathan becomes the friend who stayed by Kenny's side. "

In August 2017 it was announced that the film was on the longlist, from which the nominees for the 30th European Film Award will be determined. In September 2017 it was announced that France had submitted 120 battements par minute as a nominee in the category Best Foreign Language Film for the 2018 Academy Awards .