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Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande (2021)

Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande (2021)

Documentary
Release Date: 2021, November 24
Directors: David Teboul
Countries: France
Production: ARTE
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Rock Hudson, Félix Moati, Nicolas Maury, Michèle Morgan, Jean-Paul Aron, Dieter Appelt, Thierry Jouno, Mathieu Lindon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Duane Michals, Klaus Nomi

Overview:

From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped for did not happen. But, before his death in 1991, three years after learning of his HIV-positive status, he engraved in his literary and photographic work "the places of [his] suffering", "the stations of [his] way of the cross". With his thin body and sunken cheeks, the handsome man with curly hair that he was, the one whose clear gaze radiated from the seaside photos, fought a fierce battle against AIDS. A fight of every moment against the decay of the body, observed and commented with a methodical care in his autobiographical novels, in particular "To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life" (1990) and "The Compassionate Protocol" (1991), and of which he testified on television on the set of "Apostrophes"...