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1 The Last Lovers on Earth
2 Synopsis of The Last Lovers on Earth
3 Early Reactions to The Last Lovers on Earth
4 Viewing and Purchasing Options
5 The 3-minute Trailer for The Last Lovers on Earth

The Last Lovers on Earth

The hilarious gay comedy that is the Uncle Tom's Cabin of AIDS

" The Last Lovers on Earth," the first movie produced by The Gay Cartoon Site, is a dark comedy about the gay community and the politics of AIDS. Watch a 9 minute preview of "The Last Lovers on Earth"

Synopsis of The Last Lovers on Earth

After 25 years of AIDS propaganda, one movie finally dares to tell the truth. And it's a comedy! This bold, uncompromising film is based on one of the best collections of gay fiction in our time. In the tradition of the great underground films, "The Last Lovers on Earth" uses humor and satire to speak truth to power. The film presents three hilarious and outrageous stories about gay characters trapped in one of the worst medical and political catastrophes of our times. The stories focus on a gay man who nobody would love until he got very sick, an AIDS activist who turned AIDS into a deadly three-ring circus, and a gay couple who survive the AIDS epidemic by not following the directions of the AIDS activists and the gay leaders. Sound politically incorrect? Is it ever! The three thematically intertwined narratives build inexorably to an explosive conclusion that has shocked and amazed preview audiences. This dark literary comedy, with its storybook visual design, is truly a unique hybrid of great literature and film. It is "a writer's film" in the best sense of the term. With the verbal wit of a Woody Allen film, the tragic sense of an Ingmar Bergman film, and the aesthetic risk-taking of a Lars von Trier film, "The Last Lovers on Earth" presents a bold new vision of the gay community's current predicament that is groundbreaking and unforgettable. If you like films that inspire you to see things in new ways and laugh at the same time, this is your kind of film.

Early Reactions to The Last Lovers on Earth

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