Love Reinvented

Love Reinvented

1997 · 70 min · ★ 4.3 · Drama

Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be pregnant, to another man's reminiscence of a brief affair with an HIV-positive man.

Directed by Merzak Allouache · Written by Stéphane Galas

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