The film, screened during the first week of the Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of Ward 5B at the San Francisco General Hospital, the first specialist care unit for people with HIV/AIDs in the United States.
Later on the actress, whose best known films include “Magnolia” and “The Hours”, came to help care for an AIDS sufferer at a hospital in New York where friends and family were allowed to come in look after patients. Cliff Harrison – one of the driving forces behind the treatment center where the staff ignored ideas of clinical detachment and had physical contact with patients – said fear about the epidemic and suspicion about how it spread was one of the hurdles carers had to deal with.
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