Events & Calendars Film Screening & Discussion: 120 battements par minute (120 beats per minute)

The French Department & the Queer Resource Center present 120 battements par minute (120 beats per minute), shown in French with English subtitles. Snacks will be provided, and all are welcome!

In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists goes to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies in bold, invasive actions. The organization is ACT UP, and its members, many of them gay and HIV-positive, embrace their mission with a literal life-or-death urgency. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, the newcomer Nathan falls in love with Sean, the group's radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight for a breakthrough.