AVANT QUE J’OUBLIE
BEFORE I FORGET
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DIRECTOR
Jacques Nolot
SCREENPLAY
Jacques Nolot
CAST
Pierre Pruez: Jacques Nolot
Paul: Marc Rioufol
Marc: Bastien d'Asnières
Bruno: Bruno Moneglia
Dr. Manosky: David Kessler
Running time: 108’
Production: France, 2007
Rating: Not rated
(sexual content, nudity, language and thematic elements)
Gauge: 35mm, DVD (color)
GENRE
Drama
DISTRIBUTOR
Strand Releasing
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“Third installment in scripter-helmer-star
Jacques Nolot's trilogy on the pragmatic side of gay life finds
the straight-shooting poet of matter-of-fact sexual transactions
in fine narrative form, exhibiting his aging body and mindset
without a trace of vanity. (...) Proceedings would be risible
and sordid in less-refined hands, but Nolot has a knack, often
via nicely handled incongruity, for finding the human comedy
in awkward situations. His technique for getting out of a traffic
citation is almost certainly a cinematic first. Lensing's distinctive
Parisian feel boasts stark, chilly lighting, to accompany the
frosty indignities of solitude.”
Lisa Nesselson, Variety. |
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58-year-old Pierre, a prisoner
of his past, has a difficult time with loneliness. Pierre shuts
himself into his apartment. Sitting on the world's worst-looking
leather couch he waits for inspiration, but can't manage to
write his next book. He resorts to prostitutes for sex and discusses
at length the price of their services with his friends. Pierre
reminisces about his youth, beauty and time as a gigolo. "I've
stopped doing things,” he says, "I sublimate."
Pierre is HIV positive and has been taking medication for years.
He is weary but unbowed and begins a new therapy. Little by
little, he pulls himself together with wit and irony and finds
renewed inspiration with his psychiatrist's help. Accompanied
by a gigolo, Pierre will at last live out a fantasy. Nolot has
directed an intimate, authentic and profound film. He succeeds
in reuniting crudity and elegance, humor and despair, as well
as form and substance, in a most inclusive and paradoxical way.
In this film, he retains his status as a wistful and wise commentator
on the urgency of human communication and interaction, and gives
an unflinching rumination on homosexuality, age and desire.
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