GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE May 23, 2008

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change and the blood is enflamed.

There is not a single off note in the entire cast of seasoned professionals. Emmanuelle Beart is a familiar face on the international screen, and has been in so many American and British films that she is instantly recognizable.

Blanc has also been in a steady stream of movies on both sides of the Atlantic, and his performance evokes the universal feelings of rejection felt by those whose love is not reciprocated.

It is on young Libéreau's shoulders, however, that so much of the film rests, and his mercurial vacillations between mature adulthood and flighty teenager so epitomize the character's age. Watching him go through the realization of his impending death is a remarkable experience, and one that probably would never be done as well in an American film.

Téchiné said that he made the film because there haven't been that many about AIDS done in France. The nation doesn't have a genre of "early days of AIDS" films like it does with Vietnam, and he wanted to look back on that time with a modern eye. "I have a sense of having escaped my destiny and that's what gave me the urge to make this movie. Otherwise, it would have been a slightly abstract historical ambition," he said in the press notes for the film.

The Witnesses plays at 7 pm on Friday and 5:15 pm on Saturday at the Cinematheque, 11141 East Boulevard in the University Circle area of Cleveland. Tickets are $8, $6 for Cinematheque members and Cleveland Institute of Arts students and staff. For more information, go to www.cia.edu/cinematheque.

The film is being distributed in the United States by Strand Releasing and the DVD will be out on June 24. Check www.strandreleasing.com for The Witnesses and other incredible queer films.

Calvin

Is there a discount for the full set?

Get your anti-fundamentalist spray and head out to the bar, because Falcon Video performer TJ Hawke is taking people on a tour of the "7 Sexy Sins."

No, this is not a review of a porn flick. Hookup website Manhunt.net is celebrating its seventh anniversary with the 7 Sexy Sins tour, which will be hitting Bounce in Cleveland on June 6 and Axis in Columbus on June 7.

While the original Seven Deadly Sins-lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride— weren't all that sexy (well, with the exception of lust), Manhunt's revised versions are nothing but sexy each one is a sex act. Reading the list is fairly amusing, since the terms are an odd mix of medical, slang, and archaic. Replacing the old ones are fellatio, rimming, masturbation, voyeurism, bondage, sodomy and orgy.

Sodomy? Really? They're going to be inhospitable to guests?

Oh, wait, they mean the fundie whack-job sodomy, which just means taking it in the butt. I suppose they were trying to avoid multiple-word sins like "anal sex."

The parties will feature guest DJs, gift bags (hopefully not including a pillar of salt), door prizes and, of course, the ever-lovely Mr. Hawke.

For more information on the tour, including other, less important locations outside of Ohio, go to www.ManhuntTour.net.

-Anthony Glassman

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