“ MEET ME AT THE MOVIES! ”

The Witnesses
Directed by André Téchiné
Tuesday, January 29th - 7:30pm
Gateway (Ft. Lauderdale)

The Witnesses

Paris, summer 1984.

Manu arrives in Paris, where he shares a cheap hotel room with his sister Julie. He strikes up a joyous, chaste friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties who opens Manu's eyes to a different way of life.

On a trip out on a speedboat, Adrien introduces Manu to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple who have just had their first child.

An unplanned love affair and the onset of the AIDS epidemic - seen by the media and in the collective imagination as a shameful, modern-day plague - upset the ordered tranquility of their individual destinies. Each of them becomes a protagonist in - and witness to - a contemporary tragedy, where those who don?t die may emerge stronger, but not undamaged.