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The Witnesses
Directed by
André Téchiné
Not Rated
2007
1h 52m
Drama
,
Romance
6.9
86%
65%
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Paris, 1984: A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
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Cast of The Witnesses
Michel Blanc
Adrien
Emmanuelle Béart
Sarah
Sami Bouajila
Mehdi
Julie Depardieu
Julie
Johan Libéreau
Manu
Lorenzo Balducci
Steve
Alain Cauchi
Shérif
Constance Dollé
Sandra
Xavier Beauvois
Publisher
Satya Dusaugey
Prostitute
Jacques Nolot
Hotel manager
Raphaëline Goupilleau
Julie and Manu's mother
The Witnesses Ratings & Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
What the characters in The Witnesses -- and the audience -- pay testimony to in André Téchiné's urgent, compassionate, and ultimately optimistic French drama are the toll the epidemic has rung, and the responsibility of the living to choose life.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
André Techiné's The Witnesses is one of the finest fiction-film accounts of a free yet frightful moment in time, when the relaxing sexual liberties of the previous decade were being squeezed by the onset of an unforgiving new virus.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
The beautifully acted ensemble film The Witnesses sidesteps most of its opportunities for high drama, political sermonizing and the jerking of tears.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The Witnesses doesn't pay off with a great operatic pinnacle, but it's better that way. Better to show people we care about facing facts they care desperately about, without the consolation of plot mechanics.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
An ambling narrative, but an atmospheric one that feels authentic despite its unlikely character pairings.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
Some may think the metaphoric possibilities of an incurable illness that can be transmitted through sexual contact have been all but exhausted. Director André Téchiné almost proves otherwise in The Witnesses, a kind of film opera without music.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Techine's graceful, forceful drama has the tact not to play narrative games with its subject.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
André Téchiné's film features a strong ensemble cast. The film pulls no punches in its depiction of lives in crisis.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
A moral tale that isn't saddled with moralism, The Witnesses is a novelistic film in the best sense.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
Excitingly convoluted.
Washington Post
John Anderson
In The Witnesses, [director] Techine levels his gaze on the '80s, an era of seeming innocence, perhaps license, and one in which biological freedom has led to a loose, even sloppily knit fabric of humanity.
Village Voice
Nathan Lee
Téchiné's triumph of compassion and craft shames the American cinema's indifference to gay history.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
André Téchiné's The Witnesses (Les Témoins) treats the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, first in the United States and then spreading to the rest of the world in 1984, as a devastating medical atrocity in a war that is still raging.
Variety
Deborah Young
A fast-moving, engrossing multiple-character drama that brings the AIDS crisis of the 1980s into laser focus.
NewsBlaze
Prairie Miller
Lots of gab, a little flesh flashing, more gab, and not much action or momentum. French Kissing, Brokeback Mountain style.
Entertainment Insiders
Jonathan W. Hickman
A somber look back, and for Americans, a view from somewhere else of a time that might have been just recently forgotten.
Windy City Times
Richard Knight
A welcome addition to a legion of AIDS related movies and the French perspective, so different from our own, never fails to intrigue
HollywoodChicago.com
Adam Fendelman
As in real life, often the main crisis morphs into a continuance that has no slam-bang conclusion. Rather, we just see a small hope that awakes to experience another sunrise.
Sin Magazine
Austin Kennedy
The first 80 minutes or so are really good, but then the movie goes on for about a half hour longer than it needs to.
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