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Binding: DVD
EAN: 5038275100298
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 224109
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Hedwig's Cultural Parent -- From Canada with Love
I had the good fortune to see this film not once, or twice, but three times at the theatre. I saw it first at the Atlanta GLBT Film Festival.
From the director of URINAL, style and visual magic to spare. Plus, the longest sustained note ever held by a human on a soundtrack -- move over Ms. Streisand!
The music is angry, saddening, funny, sexual, and WAY danceable. This is a classic movie musical with a wide variety of musical styles. Think RENT without the whiney artists. ... Read More
Rating: - Double meaning in "Zero Patience"
For a film that was made in 1993, it is still is valid today. The double meanings in "Zero Patience" are the intolerance and discrimination that people living with HIV/AIDS must face and the zero patience that Gaëtan has as a ghost and scapegoat in being blamed for literally spreading the disease throughout North America. Greyson has camped it up in this film mocking the physique bodies from the 40s and 50s mail order mags, the musical, the documentary, and the interview. And they say Canadians can't ... Read More
Rating: - the politics of containment
I don't like the public much so I rarely go to the movies, and until recently the cinemas in my town were smelly and uncomfortable. Yet I went to this film and forgot where I was. It made me laugh like Peter Jackson's "Braindead". And it made me think about anthropology, and the complicity of us all in the reproduction of social exclusion.
As reviewers have noted, "Zero Patience" responds to Randy Shilt's "And the Band Played On" (there is also a film of the same title). While these ... Read More
Rating: - A Frank and Touching Alternative View
This movie, though shot on a budget, provides the viewer with an alternative take on the history of the AIDS epidemic in North America, with a frank and revisionist view of the insane determination of science and the media to seek out and label a 'villain' upon whom to place the responsibility for the intrusion of AIDS into 'Western civilization'. The traditional scapegoating of Gaetan Dugas as 'PATIENT ZERO' is turned on its head as the ghost of Dugas and a manic museum exhibition curator and designer ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing -- a movie musical about AIDS
A very ambitious film telling a touching story with stunning cinematography and songs that are clever, catchy, and sometimes corny. The title sequence features a man dancing with a mirror ball, and a co-ed water ballet. Michael Callen appears to sing one of several reprises of the wonderful "Tell a Story (Scheherazade)". Not merely a divine singer, Callen literally wrote the book on safer sex.
The film is in part a response to Randy Shilts' AIDS journalism and his book "And the Band Played ... Read More
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