01/04/2018
The Independent is amongst those media this weekend to praise the new French independent film "120 BPM", which charts the politics and love at the centre of the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power (Paris Chapter) during the later 1980's. ACT UP is considered an important group politically, inflencing not only LGBT+ activism and leading into the early 1990's of "New Queer Politics". But it also influenced the wider political activist milieu of the 1990's, having an impact in other areas such as animal rights, and groups like the anti-roads movement, Reclaim the Streets and general anti-capitalism. To the swooning soundtrack of rave music of the late eighties, the protagonists of "120 BPM" fight government indifference, public hostility and yet still find time to fall in love.
The movie opens in the UK on 6th April.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/120-bpm-trai...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Up-Paris
https://www.poz.com/article/aids-film-bpm-brings-act-paris-us-video
https://www.weareplanc.org/bamn/act-up-paris/
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/beats-per-minu...
