At a rave outside of Paris, sensuous photographer Cyril snaps Polaroids of strobe-lit waifs, while hunky Samy confesses to his bombshell girlfriend Emma that he likes boys, too — which she admits is a turn-on. It’s 1990: t-shirts are baggy, phones are rotary, and everyone smokes. Sensuous Cyril (Victor Belmondo, grandson of screen legend Jean-Paul, who also starred in Frameline47’s Lie with Me) is HIV-positive but healthy; hunky Samy (Théo Christine, Gran Turismo) hasn’t been tested; and Emma (Lou Lampros, The French Dispatch), raising Samy’s child, forces them both to speak the truth. Their tangled love triangle keeps shifting as the winds of change blow.

Director Gaël Morel debuted as an actor in the ’90s queer classic Wild Reeds, and To Live, To Die, To Live Again, which made a splash at Cannes, revisits that decade through the long lens of love and loss. Moments of joy — a madcap dash to a condom dispenser, set to Bowie’s “Modern Love” — alternate with melancholy longing while Simply Red croons “Holding Back the Years.” Morel’s most mature film as a director will clench your heart and linger like a love affair you can’t forget.