The Arcobaleno Aids Onlus Association in Turin is presenting the CULT! for this month: Dallas Buyers Club by Jean-Marc Vallée.

The Cult! rendez-vous for September, which will take place on Tuesday 26 at 8.30 p.m. at the Cinema Massimo, has been entrusted, one year from the screening of The Normal Heart, to the Arcobaleno Aids Onlus Association in Turin, which is proposing Jean-Marc Vallée’s film Dallas Buyers Club, in collaboration with the National Cinema Museum.

This film by Vallée – the winner of three Oscar awards (out of six nominations) in addition to several other prizes – deals with the theme of Aids, in a sensitive, poetic but also direct manner, through its plot about the true story of Texan Ron Woodroof: a man sick with AIDS who smuggles drugs that are not approved by the United States illegally from Mexico and other countries during the Eighties in order to cure himself, and founds the Dallas Buyers Club, an association which helps people stricken with Aids to cure themselves with illegal and alternative medicines.

This evening springs from the necessity for not lowering attention concerning contagion risks from Hiv, in spite of the great steps forward implemented by research against this disease. Admission 6.00/4.00 euro.

Jean-Marc Vallée

Dallas Buyers Club

(Usa 2013, 117’, HD, col., o.v. it. s/t)

In 1986 Ron Woodroof, an electrician from Texas, is diagnosed with Aids, and doctors foresee few days of life for him. Frustrated by the lack of official medical therapies and unwilling to accept a death sentence, Woodroof finds a lifeline in using illegal and alternative drugs and creates a smuggling ring to make them available to other Aids patients. An Oscar to Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto for their performance