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‘To Live, to Die, to Live Again’ Review: Gaël Morel’s ’90s-Set AIDS Drama Seems a Throwback Before Pointing to a Brighter Future
A polysexual Parisian binds two lovers in a family unit before tragedy looms in Gaël Morel's effective tearjerker 'To Live, To Die, To Live Again.'
The disease that, forty-odd years ago, decimated a generation of queer people and prompted a prejudice-driven global panic hasn’t gone away — least of all in various developing countries, where it isn’t popularly defined by gender or sexuality, and death rates are still high. Some years later, the couple have a toddler-age son, Nathan (Hélyos Johnson), and move into an apartment above the studio of celebrated photographer Cyril (Victor Belmondo, dead-ringer grandson of Jean-Paul), a single gay man living — not for long, he suspects — with HIV. Both her male co-stars are equally sympathetic, however: Christine gives a quiet sense of a man negotiating warring identities, while Belmondo (building on his promise in the 2022 queer drama “Lie With Me”) projects an appealing blend of puppy-dog and lone-wolf allure.
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