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Before I Forget [DVD] [2007]

Jacques Nolot    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
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  • Directors: Jacques Nolot
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Peccadillo Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Mar 2010
  • Run Time: 108 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001TLWR1Y
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 88,542 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Director Jacques Nolot directs and stars in this intimate drama about a writer struggling with HIV, who goes on a journey of self-discovery by barricading himself away from the world. Consumed by loneliness, and unable to conquer the writer's block that has affected his career, Pierre (Nolot) spends his time holed up in his flat, calling on the services of rent boys to alleviate the void in his life. But when he learns that an old friend has died, Pierre is suddenly forced to come out of his self-imposed shell, meet up with old friends, and have one final stab at fulfilling his dreams.

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3.0 out of 5 stars "I want nothing." 24 Oct 2009
By Son of Nietzsche VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
BEFORE I FORGET (French, with English subtitles) is an intentionally stark portrait of an ageing male, Pierre (played by Jacques Nolot, who also wrote and directed the film).

Pierre was a hustler in his younger days. Now 60 years old, a transposition occurs, as it is him who pays for hustlers. Indeed, financial transactions of one sort or another play a central role in shaping Pierre's current life: quantities of cash exchanged for hustlers, money left on the table at his thrice-weekly psychoanalyst visits, payments to lawyers, doctors, and insurance companies, meals eaten alone in restaurants; and - of particular importance to Pierre - the ongoing question of whether he will inherit from a much older man whom he 'serviced' back when he was still a hustler.

Naturally there is a broader theme here (the circulation of global capital, creating transactions in place of encounters); yet Pierre appears to positively revel in the tired banality of his day-to-day life. Endless cigarettes, mundane tasks, exchanging complaints with other elderly men, repetition of people and rehashing old conversations. This ambivalence emerges through his 'public' and 'private' faces: at home, he is unkempt, sleepless, inert; out in public, he becomes dapper, composed and artfully graceful.

"Stupidity kills novelty as surely as routine kills love." Pierre has neither love nor novelty; routine, repetition, serve as intentional self-punishment. He embraces them, as he welcomes stupidity. His numerous roles, representations (particularly highlighted in the seemingly polar contrast between the opening and closing scenes), are staged, marionette-like; perhaps that's all that is left.

BEFORE I FORGET met with understandable success on the festival circuit (and undoubtedly could feature prominently in any film studies course). How well it will be received by mainstream audiences remains to be seen - themes of repetition, monotony, gradual decay, tend not to have popular appeal. Still, it's a pensive, ruminating work, and it is to be hoped that its autobiographical intimacy will command attention from some.
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4.0 out of 5 stars tres french 6 Jun 2011
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slow , stark , moving and very very french . Not an action or erotic film and excellent non the less
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2.0 out of 5 stars Too dark 1 Jun 2011
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"Before I forget" is a depressing, dark and, in some moments, very slow picture. I am pretty sure it won't get a wide audience due to its plot which concerns around life of old gays (one of them being former giggolo).

World (shrinks, hustlers, whining old gays, cash cash cash) presented in this movie is completely unattractive to me, thus my low rating.
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