2007 · drama · lgbt · aids
The Witnesses
Directed by André Téchiné1h 52m2007
Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
Our read: The Witnesses (2007) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · lgbt · aids entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / lgbt, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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