Love Reinvented
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Love Reinvented (1996)

L'@mour est à réinventer

aka L'amour est à réinventer · L'@mour est à réinventer, dix histoires d'amours au temps du sida

10 ep FR M6 6 min/ep ComedyDrama

A series of shorts about the AIDS crisis, homosexuality, and the reinvention of love in such conditions.

🏳️‍🌈 This curated Canadian short-film anthology project explicitly casualizes fluid modern sexualities. It dedicates prominent segments entirely to archiving diverse real-world queer and sáfic visibility loops.

Episodes

Ep 1 Ded@ns
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In this video diary entry our HIV+ narrator has regrets, and then again, they are not too few to mention.

Ep 2 An Ordinary Night
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A young French man bicycles across town after an evening out to spend the night with his boyfriend.

Ep 3 So What?
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Lisa drives Marie home but Marie doesn't want to end the night. Lisa suggests they go for a drive. Lisa tries to keep her distance from Marie, because she has a secret. However, Marie wants to be close to Lisa.

Ep 4 In the Convertible
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Two men are going away together for the weekend but one seems more concerned than the other that there are condoms available.

Ep 5 The Seagull
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After two agonizing weeks and finally coming to terms with being in love with her best friend, a young woman comes out to and confesses her love via cassette tape.

Ep 6 The Moment
Ep 7 Evening Hooker
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A young man walks down a dark street lined with hustlers. He solicits a handsome older man, and even offers to pay his client if he also blows him. The man declines. However, the hustler made a revelation that changes his outcome.

Ep 8 The Tears of AIDS
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A closeted bisexual recounts his memory of meeting and falling in love with a man who had AIDS.

Ep 9 Pregnant or Lesbian?
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A teenager comes out to her parents by asking them to guess whether she is pregnant or a lesbian.

Ep 10 Not Everything Is Black

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