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directed by Cyril Collard...
...starring Cyril Collard, Romaine Bohringer...
...winning 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...
...Philadelphia were never exactly sister cities, except maybe to Benjamin Franklin. In current movie terms, and when the incendiary issue of AIDS is raised, the towns couldn't be further apart. The hit film Philadelphia treats its subject gingerly, making its hero a saint and a near monogamist. Cyril Collard's French film Savage Nights is defiantly incorrect, even reckless, in its political agenda. Its hero is a fellow who is HIV positive but continues to have unprotected sex. C'est la vie. C'est la mort. No big difference...
...particularly poignant moment occurs duringa scene in which Cyril and Shirley have taken atrip up to Highgate cemetry to visit the grave ofKarl Marx. Cyril starts lamenting the erosion ofindividual freedom, anticipating that "by the year2000 there'll be 36 television stations 24 hours aday, telling you what to think." At this veryinstant the couple are engulfed by a crowd ofstereotyped Japanese tourists, chattering andsnapping away furiously at Marx's statue withtheir telephoto lenses. The sequence provides acommentary on the futility of protest in a worldof mass production and mass-communication. TheBritish don't like change, but somehow we willeventually...