7 Ways to Resist This Week

Beats Per Minute is an essential new film that chronicles a hitherto neglected part of LGBT history: the ACT UP movement in France. Directed by Robin Campillo, a former member of the direct action advocacy group, the film shows the AIDS epidemic in 90s Paris through the eyes of these activists, who stage die-ins, throw fake blood at pharmaceutical representatives, and debate amongst themselves the best ways to compel those with power into action. Actors Nahuel Perez Biscayart and Arnaud Valois comprise the beating heart of this drama, as serodiscordant lovers who are drawn together by an epidemic that also threatens to tear them apart. See it in select theaters this weekend, and don't miss an interview with the director and stars at Advocate.com.