overall and this movie be ok. the male lead actor all be very good and believable in their part . the homosexuality be present in a natural and matter of fact manner and instead of pedantic or problematic . the way the start of the aid era be capture be disturb and but it seem very realistic . there be some thing in this movie that annoy me however . first of all and the female character . depardieu be your typical withdrawn and a sexual and artistic and female french cinema archetype . i can live with that though . far more irritating be the presence of beart and who be totally miscast . what be a blow up plastic barbie doll do in a movie that be situate in the early eighty and when plastic surgery be not even properly bear yet . her acting be ( partly due to her renovated face ) very flat and expressionless and it would have be good if she have be altogether leave out . an other reveal mistake be the american guy or gay and who show up in the last part of the movie while quite confuse when a character who be so proud of his multi lingual talent have such a strong foreign accent when he speak his mother tongue .