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After 25 years of AIDS propaganda, one movie finally dares to tell the truth.
This bold, uncompromising film is based on one of the best collections of gay fiction in our time. In the tradition of the great underground films, "The Last Lovers on Earth" uses humor and satire to speak truth to power. The film presents three hilarious and outrageous stories about gay characters trapped in one of the worst medical and political catastrophes of our times. The stories focus on a gay man who nobody would love until he got very sick, an AIDS activist who turned AIDS into a deadly three-ring circus, and a gay couple who survive the AIDS epidemic by not following the directions of the AIDS activists and the gay leaders. Sound politically incorrect? Is it ever!
The three thematically intertwined narratives build inexorably to an explosive conclusion that has shocked and amazed preview audiences. This dark literary comedy, with its storybook visual design, is truly a unique hybrid of great literature and film. It is "a writer's film" in the best sense of the term. With the verbal wit of a Woody Allen film, the tragic sense of an Ingmar Bergman film, and the aesthetic risk-taking of a Lars von Trier film, "The Last Lovers on Earth" presents a bold new vision of the gay community's current predicament that is groundbreaking and unforgettable. If you like films that inspire you to see things in new ways and laugh at the same time, this is your kind of film.
Charles Ortleb's writing about the epidemic has been likened to the work of Orwell and Brecht. As writer and co-director of "The Last Lovers on Earth," he played a major role in bringing his own words to life.
(This film couldn't come at a better time. The debate over what AIDS is and what causes it has been given a boost by the recent controversial article in Harper's by Celia Farber. The article questions the role of HIV in AIDS.)
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Reviews:
"Intensely cerebral. Intensely clever. Intensely funny."
--Valendar F. Turner, the Perth Group
"Every element of the film is first-rate."
--John Lauritsen, Author of "The AIDS War"
"The movie is a profound and funny look into the abyss that AIDS has become."
--Jonathan Campbell, Medical Writer
"This digital production makes an important start in the use of theatre to deconstruct the evil edifice of AIDS orthodoxy."
--Joan Shenton, Meditel Productions
"If the medium of film can be said to have become numbing, in the Huxley sense--a medium of reassurance--Ortleb once again explodes our comfort zone. He did it with his radical newspaper, and now he is doing it with a low budget, strange, utterly different and stirring film, that is more like a series of surreal plays than a movie. It goes to the place that can only be called an ideological terra incognita. His dark vision of the psychic narrative of AIDS is played out here in the classical form of a futuristic nightmare that is by turns exasperating, shocking, poignant, and even gravely funny."
--Celia Farber, Author of "Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS"
