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| Covington USA | Release Date: December 1, 2006 |
Starring:
Shawn Ashmore
Summary:
A novice nun (Sevigny) in South Africa, a black marketeer (Ling) in China and an HIV-positive porn star (Ashmore) in Canada provide three very different perspectives on the struggle against AIDS.
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After reminding us that the AIDS crisis in the West is far from over in "The Event," Fitzgerald widened his scope with this much-needed perspective on the global dimensions the disease has achieved. Despite the importance and seriousness of the subject, there's plenty of Fitzgerald's brand of sly humor on hand, particularly in the scenes involving the Quebecoise porn industry.
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In terms of simple provocation, nothing in this melodramatic mosaic of global suffering comes close to matching director Thom Fitzgerald's press kit prediction that "the AIDS pandemic will be seen in retrospect as much more significant than the ongoing jihad." A film about THAT could be compelling; this one is merely content to suggest, cleverly and often, that it recognizes far more than we ever could the pain and cruelty of disease.
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