ZERO PATIENCE

From the director of the very serious "Urinal" comes this unexpectedly outrageous and satiric musical comedy about life in the age of AIDS. The story centres around "Patient Zero" - Gaetan Dugas - a French-Canadian airline steward who was reported by health officials to be the man who introduced AIDS to North America, and helped rapidly spread the disease with his promiscuous lifestyle.

Gaetan returns from the dead to restore his name and solicits the help of 19th century, now 20th century AIDS researcher, Sir Richard Burton. But Burton has his own agenda: to gather all the damaging information he can on Gaetan and others for an exhibition on contagious diseases is a museum's "Hall of Contamination".

Burton's development from a self-centred heterosexual homophobe, open to distorting the truth for personal advancement, to an ACT-UP-style queer in the front lines of activism, is the centrepiece of this amazing story.

And if this strange plot is not enough to hold your attention, the movie features several bizarre musical routines, inventively choreographed and sporting witty camp lyrics.

Audaciously political, cinematically inventive, AIDS-informative and queerly radical.