BPM Looks at AIDS Activism but Avoids the Tropes

It's the kind of movie that wouldn’t get made in America.by Megan BurbankFrance’s Oscar contender for best foreign language film, BPM, fucked me up for days after I saw it. But I’m glad I did—it’s a movie about AIDS activism that avoids many of the tropes that usually appear in depictions of HIV and AIDS. In other words, it’s the kind of movie that wouldn’t get made in the United States.Set in 1990s Paris and focused on a French activist group modeled on