
THE WITNESSES Emmanuelle Béart, one of the characters who come to grips with the onset of AIDS in mid-'80s France in director André Téchiné's drama
Credits
Limited Release: Jan 18, 2008; Rated: Unrated; Length: 152 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Emmanuelle Beart and Sami Bouajila
B+
A hot children's book writer (Emmanuelle Béart), her hot cop husband (Sami Bouajila), his hot young lover (Johan Libéreau), and an older gay doctor (Michel Blanc) a friend of the lady's who's mad about the boy mix and match in mid-1980s pansexual utopia until death arrives unannounced in the form of AIDS. What the characters in The Witnesses and we, the audience pay testimony to in André Téchiné's urgent, compassionate, and ultimately optimistic French drama are the toll the epidemic has rung, and the responsibility of the living to choose life. B+
Posted Feb 20, 2008
You Might Also Like
- Movie Review Strayed (May 14, 2004) | Lisa Schwarzbaum
- Movie Commentary Critic's Choice | Lisa Schwarzbaum
- Movie News Holiday box office forecast (Dec 12, 2008) | Christine Spines
- Movie Review Eden (Nov 14, 2008) | Owen Gleiberman
Add Your Comments
The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on the subject or we might delete your comment.
If you see inappropriate language,
e-mail us.
You must have javascript enabled to submit a comment.
You Might Also Like
- Movie Review Strayed (May 14, 2004) | Lisa Schwarzbaum
- Movie Commentary Critic's Choice | Lisa Schwarzbaum
- Movie News Holiday box office forecast (Dec 12, 2008) | Christine Spines
- Movie Review Eden (Nov 14, 2008) | Owen Gleiberman




