André Téchiné
France
French | English
2007
Drama
109min
Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Julie Depardieu, Johan Libéreau, Constance Dollé, Lorenzo Balducci, Alain Cauchi, Xavier Beauvois, Raphaëline Goupilleau, Jacques Nolot, Maïa Simon, Bertrand Soulier

The year is 1984. The place is Paris, France. Manu is a young gay man from the country recently arrived in Paris. During the course of one year, several individuals will become involved with Manu and through him with each other. André Téchiné’s The Witnesses is typically French in its nuancing of several shades of love, and brings fresh perspective to how AIDS changed the world in the 1980s, a time that now feels like more than a mere generation ago.