Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize, François Chalais Award, Grand Jury Prize, and Queer Palm, there is little doubt that Robin Campillo’s “BPM (Beats Per Minute)” was an absolute smash at Cannes this spring. The film is now adding to the buzz that has been building by screening at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival, and for the rest of us, a new trailer is here to let us in on the acclaimed drama.
Starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud, Ariel Borenstein, Aloïse Sauvage, Médhi Touré, Simon Bourgade, Simon Guélat, Catherine Vinatier, Théophile Ray, Saadia Bentaieb, Jean-François Auguste, and Coralie Russier, the film takes viewers into the riveting, powerful world of AIDS activism in France during the 1990s. Here’s the official synopsis:
Writer-director Robin Campillo (Les Revenants, Eastern Boys) offers a harrowing yet inspiring look back at the activism of French ACT UP protestors during the height of the AIDS crisis in the early 1990s. With the disease having claimed countless lives in the past ten years, the Parisian branch of ACT UP begins to multiply their actions to fight the public’s general indifference to this massive health crisis. Nathan (Arnaud Valois), a newcomer to the group, soon has his world shaken up by the radical militant Sean (Nahuel Perez Biscayart).
“BPM” opens on October 20th.