Feast

[Available March 9 via streaming on MUBI.] Tim Leyendekker's disturbing, award-winning, raw, gritty, candid, thought-provoking, unsettling, 85-minute, 2021 documentary that examines the notorious Groningen HIV case in 2007 in which an eclectic group of 14 Dutch men in Holland in 2005 were invited to sex orgies via the Internet and then often drugged with ecstasy and GHB and infected with HIV-contaminated blood, and it consists of seven vignettes, including a police inspector (Trudi Klever) who empties box filled with sexual paraphernalia prior to trial, a discussion with a group of men who were invited to masochistic sex parties and practiced unsafe relations, an interview with one of the main perpetrators (Oscar Van Den Boogaard) at his country house, and a plant biologist (Katerina Sereti) who discusses the effect of a virus on tulips and its symbiotic relationship.
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