120 BPM
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- intense
Sombre, steady, measured drama / french, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.
Our read · 120 BPM (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · french entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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