Still Around
by Kilian Melloy
Thursday May 12, 2011
http://www.edgeboston.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/features/118847/still_around"Still Around" is a compendium of 15 short films on the theme of HIV. Most of the protagonists are positive, but the ways in which they deal with their status--and associated issues, like coming out to family or getting politically involved--are wildly different.
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Perhaps one of the most surprising films--and one of the most affecting testimonies--is Marc Smolowicz's "Sorrow and Joy," in which a young transman talks about his sexual identity and his transition from female to male, a process that takes place against a backdrop of acute consciousness of the plague. The best films in this outstanding anthology give us what this segment so expertly distills: The drama, dangers, and enrichment of finding out who you are--and laying claim to it--without letting labels get in the way.
