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Before I Forget
Directed by
Jacques Nolot
Not Rated
2008
1h 48m
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama), [Romance](/on-demand/category/romance)
6.0
87%
42%
5.9
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A portrait of a 58-year-old man battling his inner demons on the search for self-discovery.
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Before I Forget Ratings & Reviews
MUBI
Daniel Kasman
..."Before I Forget" one of the most unexpected surprises I've seen in some time...
Filmcritic.com
Don Willmott
an intense character study
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
The visuals are stunning, as is the use of music...unforgettable.
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
[Jacques] Nolot, in his actor's hat, creates a melancholy, often-sad character that I grew to have a great deal of empathy for.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
Before I Forget is a film one can admire, but it is not 'likable,' per se, nor does its director wish it to be.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
[A] strikingly different and oddly funny French drama about a 60-year-old former hustler-turned-writer whose later years aren't exactly golden.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Before I Forget is, in the broad sense, 'gay-themed'. But it's also one of the loveliest, most direct and most devastating pictures about aging that I've ever seen.
Boxoffice Magazine
Matthew Nestel
Not a lot of ground is covered, but that might just be the point. The end of days are near, and the film is the interim itself, watching a man wind down ever so slowly while trying for a few last gasps to stave it off.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
An unblinking portrait of a complicated, solitary gay man who has outlived his working years.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
With verbose and eloquent characters (let alone the fog of cigarette smoke), Before I Forget won't easily shake off the label of a "French film," and all that that implies.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
It's a simple-looking film with a complicated center. But there's a kind of sadness in the film that remains untapped, perhaps because Pierre himself isn't ready for it.
AV Club
Noel Murray
It's hardly a rosy picture of what it's like to be gay and 60 in Paris. But it's an engrossing picture.
New York Press
Armond White
This isn't gay self-hatred, but an authentic unnerving portrait; it dares to oppose cinema's false romanticism with ruthless honesty.
Slant Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
What saves Before I Forget from unenlightening depression is not just Nolot's refusal to beg for audience pity, but also his dry sense of humor.
Film Journal International
David Noh
There is not a single laugh or really emotionally involving moment one can cling to here.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Sara Cardace
The film doesn't feel like a tragedy, but instead a droll slice of life -- perhaps a bit too muted and overlong, but often compelling in its own way.
House Next Door
Keith Uhlich
[Jacques] Nolot writes, directs, and stars as Pierre Pruez, an HIV-positive bottom boy-no-longer who navigates his ruined life and beauty with aplomb.
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Third installment in 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.
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