The cause of a veritable hecatomb during the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, more and more doctors no longer hesitate to speak of HIV as a chronic disease. Although there is no cure for HIV, the tritherapies, which have been available since 1996 and are constantly being improved, now make it possible to live with it: HIV is no longer synonymous with AIDS, more than 80% of patients are therapeutically successful; this is more than diabetes. The promise of a vaccine is constantly being postponed: what solutions can be found to ensure that one day we can finally talk about the end of AIDS? What kind of prevention should be implemented to make it effective? This film takes stock of the major medical advances made today and investigates the successes and failures of HIV.
This film manages to be simultaneously topical and timeless. Without being preachy, it highlights society’s flawed relationship with tech; insights into the complex ideas of family struggle are expertly dispersed among a perfectly paced and balanced story.
That gut-wrenching feeling you have while watching it is okay but needed, and you, the viewer, will be okay.
This fantasy movie released on Disney+ has strong topics and themes related to magic.
Years before Mexican director, Alfonso Cuaron, was winning Academy Awards for movies like Gravity (2013) and Roma(2018), he directed a small, intimate film about two best friends who decide to embark on an improvised road trip to spend time with an older, attractive woman who miraculously agrees to go with them. Y tu Mamá También is a deep journey into the raw sexuality and friendship of the young protagonists, as well as a subtle social and political commentary on Mexico at the time.
Alongside A Drowning Man, I Signed The Petition, 3 Logical Exits, and A World Not Ours, A Man Returned continues to paint a realistic portrait of the Refugee Crisis that eschews the Western gaze and stereotype. These are real portraits painted by a director with lived experience, cultural connection and an amazing eye for visuals.
The repeated actions, the blood on the petals, the rustling under the floor…An ambient short horror film takes us into another realm.
