2021 · drama · lgbt · historical
The First Fallen
Directed by Rodrigo de Oliveira1h 47m2021
1983 — A young biologist returns home from studies abroad and feels something wrong with his body. This is the start of the AIDS crisis when the first wave of the epidemic hit Brazil. Lives will change, friends will be lost and the future is uncertain.
Our read: The First Fallen (2021) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · lgbt · historical entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / lgbt, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
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