Cannes Shows a New Look at AIDS After Covid

The films of La Croisette revisit the traumas of HIV through the prism of the recent pandemic, revealing disturbing echoes between two global health crises. This year, the Cannes Film Festival has offered a platform for a number of bold works that plunge into the dark hours of the AIDS epidemic. Poignant tales, written by [...] The article AIDS and Covid: When Cannes Film Explores Fear and Exclusion appeared first on Le Singulier.

Cannes, France. After years of a certain absence in Cannes, several films, some in competition, address in this edition the first years of AIDS, when fear and repudiation predominated. Both in "Alpha", by the French Julia Ducournau, in la Palma de Oro, and in "The mysterious gaze of flamenco", by the Chilean Diego Céspedes, in the section A Certain Look, a new virus is wreaking havoc, especially between drug addicts and the LGTB community. This …