This exquisite and heartbreaking film by Christophe Honoré felt like a more whimsical but no less real partner to last year's BPM. The Anglicised title doesn't do it justice, and I prefer the original that loosely translates as "pleasure, love and run fast."

Set in Northern in the early 1990s, the story circles around two key characters; Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps), a writer in his late 30s who is HIV-positive and Arthur (Vincent Lacoste), a young student who has relationships…