Cast

Xavier Beauvois Chiara Mastroianni Roschdy Zem Bulle Ogier Jean-Louis Richard Emmanuel Salinger

Credits

Written by: Xavier Beauvois

Plot

A young man in Paris with HIV dodges military service and gets involved with a woman, and a friendship and an affair develop, in a film about illness and love in the AIDS era.

Sinekatalog’s take

A fine, melancholic first film.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.4 / 10 (636 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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