An emotional and moving account about all the wonderful men and women that died from AIDS in San Francisco. That devastating era is traced through the testimony of 5 people from all walks of life who elegantly articulated their memories on how they watched countless friends and lovers die. The disease infected roughly half of the city’s gay male population, and it ended up killing more than 19,000 by the end of 2009. By then some 15,000 more, that were now on the newly discovered drugs were living with H.I.V.
Compassionately filmed by David Weissman, whose previous movie was a doc on a SF institution from the 80’s ‘The Cockettes’, this movie may not have anything ground breaking new to add to the scenario, but it recognizes the importance of bearing witness whilst the people left behind are still alive. It is also a remembrance of all the thousands of people who are physically gone but who are certainly not forgotten.
Essential viewing, it is after all also a film about love; about these selfless men and women, and their peers who stood by their friends throughout it all no matter how tough it got for them all.
Ensure you have a box of Kleenex with you.
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Labels: 2011, Aids, documentary, gay
