Word: collard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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starring Cyril Collard, Romaine Bohringer...
...play, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches tells the modern story of death as result of AIDS. Kushner shows his character in their turmoils, their laughs and their delusions. Unlike Kushner's well-paced play, which balance the melancholia, depression and heartache surrounding this deadly disease, French film maker Cyril Collard's "Savage Nights" (or "Les Nuits Fauves") approaches the subject of AIDS in a much more dramatic, passionate, insane way, one which, ultimately, is unable to remain comprehensible...
...film is based on Collard's novel of the same title and tells the story of Jean (played by Collard), a film maker and musician who lives a seedy bisexual life in the subculture of Paris. He meets, falls in love and has great, mind-numbing sex with Laura, played by Romaine Bohringer, an 18-year old whose maturity seems far beyond her years...
However, this is nothing compared to the exaggerated emotion which follows. Collard shows Laura in the mids of a psychological obsession. She calls Jean 24 hours a day, leaving insane message of death, terror and suicide. Finally, Laura is carted off to the insane asylum...
Perhaps we are to assume that Collard believes Jean's quotation at the beginning of the film, "Only violence can put an end to man's ways," because we get to see plenty of violence-domestic, sexual and racial. The film attempts to achieve a fervent pitch of turbulent emotion, but is incapable to sustaining it. The goal here seems to be to achieve the numbing qualities of a "Reservoir Dogs" but ends without delving deeply enough below the emotional skin to make the audience empathize with any of the characters...