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Monday, November 28, 2011

Longtime Companion 1990

Longtime Companion
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Companheiros de Sempre (Portugal)
Che mi dici di Willy? (Italy)
Compañeros inseparables (Spain)
Companys inseparables (Spain)
Dlugoletni przyjaciele (Poland)
Freundschaft fürs Leben West (Germany)
Hosszútávú kapcsolat Hungary)
Ikuinen ystävyys (Finland)
Juntos para siempre (Argentina)
Un compagnon de longue date (France)

Norman René
USA
1990
English
Drama, Romance
99min
Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, John Dossett, Mary-Louise Parker, Stephen Caffrey, Tanya Berezin, Welker White, Michael Piontek, Joyce Reehling, Bruce Davison, Mark Lamos, Dermot Mulroney, Michael Schoeffling, Brian Cousins, Marceline Hugot

Grupo de amigos gays passa a demonstrar sinais de preocupação com as primeiras notícias de jornal falando sobre a Aids. Logo alguns deles apareçam seriamente doentes. Em questão, as dúvidas, a maneira como encarar o futuro e a importância da solidariedade.

Perhaps the first film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic, Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates the lives of our protagonists. Jumping between Manhattan and Fire Island, vignettes carry us from the it-couldn't-happen-to-me mentality of the early days of the disease to the invasive effect it has had on all of our lives, today. The title of the film comes from the New York Times' refusal to acknowledge homosexual relationships in their obituary section during this period. Instead, survivors were referred to as "Longtime Companions" of the deceased.