The Revue Cinema, in partnership with Vtape and Reel Canada, presents a new restoration of John Greyson’s ZERO PATIENCE on National Canadian Film Day.
Canada | 1993 | 97 min |
“Juggling MTV-style numbers, intellectual in-jokes and very sexual politics,” (Variety), Zero Patience examines and refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single individual. With defiant use of camp, melodrama and song, Canadian filmmaker John Greyson (Lilies) makes clear the ridiculous and paranoid story of “Patient Zero.” The musical tells its story against the backdrop of a romance between a time-displaced Sir Richard Francis Burton and the ghost of “Zero”.
Director: John Greyson Cast: John Robinson, Normand Fauteux, Dianne Heatherington, Richardo Keens-Douglas Music: Glenn Schellenberg