(Verbieten verboten) Lothar Lambert, for all the shameless aesthetics and wicked humor of his "no-budget" filmmaking, has always dealt with the desire for love and its impossibility; with men (and women) wanting love but settling, sometimes in touching ways, for brief passions. Forbidden to Forbid-eight sketches which take place in a condemned Berlin peep-show-deals specifically with the problem of love in the age of AIDS: the loneliness, the craziness, and the uncertain fulfillment of living in short, intense bursts under the threat of death. It is a very personal film for Lambert, dedicated to Dieter Schidor, a longtime member of his family of actors and a director and producer in his own right, who committed suicide last September after learning that he had AIDS. The final part of the film is a chilling conversation between Schidor and Ingrid Caven, another Lambert regular, about Schidor's imminent death.