Reviews

First premiered at Cannes where it won a Grand Prix, it's an impotant story of AIDS epidemic throughout the 90s in Paris and the actions taken by ACT UP organization founded to fight the epidemics.

This film does a great job at showing the activism at its thriving and not so thriving stages and introducing us to the stories of people until, at some point, a romance takes place while movie doesn't loose its quality and starts balancing two narratives.

Great casting, directing, sound choices. I will be happy to see two main actors in many new films waiting to see the light of day. They are proven talented and capable of taking demanding roles like ones showed here.

I noticed some unusual and smart ways of using sex scenes to deepen the background of the story, the story of one, also the one of the many.

Techo music was the music of the epidemic, 120 beats per minute, but at some point, heartbeat dismiss the techno and takes over, while the blood river flows though the city of Paris.

Two female protagonists with overly exaggerated names to display the cynicism and to mock the idea of free love that was still significantly present, but not as widely spread in the time of release of this movie as it was just a few years back.

Story is relatively presented through the lengthy chunks of dialogue, with loads of notable close-ups to draw the attention of viewers, showing the apathy, irritation and contempt, but also harmony and gratification occurring within the love triangle formed of the three main protagonists.

La maman et la putain, one of the last examples of utterly momentous new wave, also represents a last farewell to this influential movement, leaving the distinctive french cinema in the hands of a new generation with all its beliefs and attitudes.