Nine short films about love.

A French collection of short films about the search for love in the age of AIDS that is surrounded by an American short starring Alexis Arquette and an Australian short. From a stolen sexual encounter in a NYC subway to a young man on his own for the first time since his lover died, this is a rich and moving collection of films.

Les passagers (1999) French with english and German subs Infos: Titre / Title: LES PASSAGERS / THE PASSENGERS Année / Year: 1999 Réalisateur / Director: Jean-Claude Guigue Genre: Drame, Romance / Drama, Romance Durée / Runtime: 88 min Pays / Country: France Langue / Language: Francais / French Sous-titres / Subtitles: English, German Distribution / Cast: - Philippe Garziano (Pierre) seen in Drôle de Félix / The Adventures of Felix - Bruno Putzulu (David) seen in Pourquoi pas moi? / Why Not Me? - Stéphane Rideau (Marco) seen in Les roseaux sauvages / The Wild Reeds - Fabienne Babe (Anna) - Véronique Silver (La Narratrice) - Gwenaëlle Simon (Isabelle) - Jean-Christophe Bouvet (Le Voyageur) Note/Rate IMDB: 6,1/10 Infos du fichier / File infos: Video: JVT/AVC Coding, 631×390, 29.97 fps, 945 kbps Audio: MPEG-4 Audio stereo, 44.1 kHz, 160 kbps Taille / Size: 703 Mo Sous-titres / Subtitles: Separate softcoded Source: DVD rip Qualité / Quality: Très bonne / Very good. It is a day like any other. Men and women make their way across Paris north suburbs via the new tramway, silent in their thoughts but willing to tell us their stories. A young man who is taking flowers to the grave of his former lover, a victim of AIDS, reflects on their last moments together. Another young man is so obsessed with finding a woman with perfect feet that he ends up marrying one with an unpleasant face. David, a school teacher, begins an amorous liaison with a an unemployed younger man, Marco, whilst Pierre, a security guard, is all too ready to give up his days of solitude when he meets the right woman. Around them, society seems to be crumbling, the spread of AIDS reflecting a far deeper malaise in a world that has lost its way… Les Passagers is a thought-provoking and hugely original film d’auteur from director and former film critic Jean-Claude Guiguet. Through a series of inter-locking vignettes involving vulnerable men and women looking for love in an increasingly loveless world, the film makes some appropriate comments on the nature of our society. Whilst not all of the observations are original, the poetic way in which Guiget makes his thesis certainly is. Les Passagers is an odd but appealing mix of the overtly political and the intensely humanist – rather like a curious marriage of Godard and Truffaut. Among the diverse themes the film addresses are the random behaviour of the AIDS virus (which, unlike human beings, is totally non-discriminatory) and the destruction wrought by industries which are driven solely by the need to increase profits, not for the betterment of humanity. A beautifully composed work, this is a film which accurately reflects a modern western society in which communities are fragmented, life is increasingly uncertain and people find it harder and harder to communicate with one another. A stylized and poetic movie with a beautiful soundtrack.