BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017) on Netflix
In early 1990s Paris, ACT UP activists press the government and drug companies to move faster against AIDS. Newcomer Nathan joins the group and is drawn to Sean, a radical militant.
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Plot summary
Nearly ten years into the AIDS epidemic, the members of ACT UP Paris accuse the French government of dragging its feet on the fight against the virus. The group stages public protests, and when the pharmaceutical company Melton Pharm says it will present its HIV trial results at a conference the following year, members take over its offices with fake blood and call for the results to be made public. In large meetings, they argue over strategy, some demanding direct action, others wanting to bring scientists into the conversation. Nathan, a gay man who is not HIV-positive, is new to the group, and he is drawn to Sean, an HIV-positive radical militant.
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- On 4 February 2018, Christian protesters carrying icons and nationalist banners disrupted a screening of BPM at the Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest, calling it inadmissible because it is about homosexuals; police removed them after half an hour.
