348 – BPM

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

We close out Pride Month with one of our favorite queer films from the past decade, 2017’s BPM. From French director Robin Campillo, BPM follow a group of ACT UP activists during the height of the AIDS epidemic. With Campillo’s emotional and intuitive style of observation, the film shows the labors of political organization in all the warts of in-fighting and disagreement, but also the beauty of human connection amidst dire circumstances. The film was France’s International Feature submission, but didn’t even make the shortlist despite its high acclaim.

This episode, we discuss what makes the film all the moving and valuable in our current moment. We also talk about Nahuel Perez Biscayart’s moving lead performance, France’s current dry spell of winning the International Feature Oscar, and the Cannes Film Festival where BPM won the Grand Prix.

Topics also include The Orchard, gay people not being a monolith, and other 2017 queer movies.

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:12.8	No, the right house.
0:13.6	I didn't get that.
0:14.7	We want to talk to Mel and Hack.
0:15.8	Melan Hack and French. I'm from Canada water
0:27.6	Dick
0:28.6	Dick Poop
0:41.5	It's not we can't have the They're not the need of the labos, it's they can't be
0:43.3	You know that we're not to mobilize the media
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0:54.7	capable of adeptive
0:55.8	a lot of the disease,
0:56.8	a attitude positive and combative.
1:00.2	I just not to chop your coder
1:01.6	I'm not.
1:01.8	I'm not going to pay.
1:03.6	Oh.
1:07.6	A Cup, Paris,
1:08.3	we have chosen to affirm the citad
1:09.6	as a defil.
1:10.4	Hello, and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that peed in the pool at water aerobics.
1:15.9	Every week on The Sad Asper Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had Lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another, it all went wrong.
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