Early Reactions to the Film
On the cusp between humor and terror, The Last Lovers on Earth brings to fruition the techniques of underground films, Brechtian drama, and the Theater of the Ridiculous. There are three stories (or parables) told in rotation. Each makes an incisive point, and the film as a whole makes one huge point -- a simple message, which few gay men have dared to apprehend. Every element of the film is first-rate: the words of poet Charles Ortleb, the acting, the direction, the original illustrations, the music, and the editing. --John Lauritsen Author, The AIDS War
The movie is a profound and funny look into the abyss that AIDS has become. Through light and dark deadpan humor, it begins to address the myths, fraud, and hype that have become the accepted AIDS paradigms: that gay men and sexual promiscuity are the "cause," that AIDS testing and drugs work, that demanding drugs and vaccines for everyone is going to save them. It challenges AIDS activists, AIDS researchers, and thinking people in general to have a critical look at this house of cards that is the AIDS Establishment. --Jonathan Campbell Health Consultant
If the AIDS establishment has a hit list, this film is at the top of the list. --James D'Eramo Medical Writer and Journalist
This movie, made on a shoestring, is the nightmare AIDS bureaucrats don't want to have. It reveals their earnest attitude for what it is: a coat of polish over backroom scientific corruption of the lowest order. --Jon Rappoport Author, AIDS INC.
Satire in the hands of Charles Ortleb is a very dangerous weapon indeed. This digital production makes an important start in the use of theatre to deconstruct the evil edifice of AIDS orthodoxy. --Joan Shenton Meditel Productions
Intensely cerebral. Intensely clever. Intensely funny. Intensely sad. Like a message in a bottle the story floats in and out of vision but ever onwards carrying its message. Finally, when it lands on the shore, it's nothing like we think. Never has it been more truthful to say "Science advances funeral by funeral". --Valendar F. Turner The Perth Group
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