65 minutes
11/24/2021
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"...
Mathieu Amalric
as Self
Dieter Appelt
as Self (archive footage)
Jean-Paul Aron
as Self (archive footage)
Jacques Demy
as Self (archive footage)
Michel Foucault
as Self (archive footage)
Hervé Guibert
as Self (archive footage)
Rock Hudson
as Self (archive footage)
Thierry Jouno
as Self (archive footage)
Bernard-Marie Koltès
as Self (archive footage)
Mathieu Lindon
as Self
Robert Mapplethorpe
as Self (archive footage)
Nicolas Maury
as Self
Philippe Mezescaze
as Self
Duane Michals
as Self (archive footage)
Félix Moati
as Self
Michèle Morgan
as Self (archive footage)
Klaus Nomi
as Self (archive footage)
Rudolf Nureyev
as Self (archive footage)