Zero Patience
by John Greyson
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Actor: Bernard Behrens, Dianne Heatherington, John Robinson, Normand Fauteux, Richardo Keens-DouglasDirector: John Greyson
Writer: John Greyson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Strand Releasing
Movie Reviews of Zero Patience
Movie Review: Radical and Entertaining
Summary: 5 Stars
When I saw that the only reviewer of this fine film had given it one star and raked it over the coals, I felt compelled to write a review that gave a fair critique of the film.
The film is amazing on many levels. As a musical, it works. If not for the subject matter, I bet Broadway would have scooped it up. The song "Six of Seven Things" is beautiful as are "Just Like Scherazade" and "Zero Patience." More importantly, the politics of the piece are important. While we no longer point fingers as one individual "Patient Zero" of AIDS, our culture still engaged in the rhetoric of blame when it comes to the disease in our demarcation of the "innocents" infected via blood transfusion and those who practice unsafe sex or engage in drug use. Zero's proclamation, "Tell the story, clear my name. We don't need someone to blame" echoes today in a culture that indicts those that engage in high risk activities as somehow deserving of the virus.
The film's creative vision is ingenious. The incorporation of the Victorian sexologist Sir Richard Burton as Zero's lover is brilliant! The theme of detecting the truth about the disease shows that things have not changed all that much in a hundred years. The motif of Burton's "A Thousand Nights and One Night" into Zero telling his own story in his own words is indicative of the powerful meshing of creative genius with radical polemic.
The film was one of the first to really give an honest voice to a gay man with AIDS. I defy anyone to say that films like "An Early Frost" or "Grief" or "Parting Glances" or "Longtime Companion" are as powerful and important as this one. AIDS does not serve as watered down melodrama here. It is the vehicle to indict a diseased society for its intolerance. This is one of the most underrated films of all time. Sure, it has singing anuses, but the ruse is used to question a cultural obsession with embracing Freud's death drive. You're not going to see that kind of intelligent engagement in the myriad other films about AIDS that use it invoke pathos, not profundity.
Buy this film. It is a truly beautiful piece of art!
Summary of Zero Patience
"John Greyson, the director of Lilies and Proteus, has woven a tall tale of love and loss, sex and science, history and hysteria in the age of AIDS. Greyson revives renowned Victorian Sir Richard Burton who constructs a sensationalist multimedia museum display focusing on Patient Zero, the gay French-Canadian flight attendan accused of bringing AIDS to North America. Fast-paced, hilarious and provocative, ZERO PATIENCE is essential viewing." - Program note from Toronto International Films FestivalSimilar DVD Movies
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