Robin Campillo follows 'Eastern Boys' by mining his past as a member of AIDS activist group ACT UP in 1990s Paris in '120 Beats Per Minute,' a drama of politics, passion and loss. By David Rooney ...

Robin Campillo's new film looks back at AIDS activism in Paris in the early 1990s. By Gregg Kilday Freelance Contributor “I actually lived through this time,” he said Saturday at the official press ...

Sometimes a movie doesn’t need much character development to make an impact. The ensemble cast that comprise Robin Campillo’s AIDS activists in BPM (Beats Per Minute) all work together to be the same ...

“120 Beats Per Minute,” “Visages, Villages” and the poodle from “The Meyerowitz Stories” are among the winners in various Cannes Film Festival Awards, which are handed out in the run-up to the big ...

CANNES, France — "120 Beats Per Minute," a French AIDS drama with a full heart and a pounding rhythm, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday and quickly joined the shortlist of favorites for ...

Robin Campillo’s 1990s-set AIDS drama “BPM” — originally called “120 Beats Per Minute” — got the best kind of mixed reaction at its first press screening at the Cannes Film Festival last May. While ...

Following one of Cannes’s infamously early 8:30 a.m. press screenings, you’ll usually see small groups of journalists gathering in the theater lobby, parsing out their hot takes on what they’ve just ...

Robin Campillo's sprawling drama brings the French version of ACT UP to vivid life. It takes close to an hour before any backstories emerge for the ensemble cast of AIDS activists in “BPM (Beats Per ...

For the third year in a row, Cannes’s Main Competition jury — this year comprised of jury president Pedro Almodóvar, German filmmaker Maren Ade, and several celebrity industry professionals whose ...