Unsentimental, true to life, sober, yet impressive, touching portrait about the fight to cure AIDS during the eighties.

Rating: 10/10 (9 December 2019)

Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto both literally starved themselves in order to look like anorexic corpses. They are both so skinny and sick looking that it is daunting to look at them. Their acting performances are both Oscar worthy.
This movie is a NON sentimental, yet still very touching, impressive portrait about the fight AIDS patients had to endure to stay alive in the eighties, when they were diagnosed with this (then unknown) killing disease.
The true story and the acting performances are impressive on their own, but the direction, editing, photography are all excellent as well. This is one heck of a movie. Saddening, yet still full of lust for life. Seen it many times now and I still am silent and in awe every single time I have watched it...