Before I Forget (NR)
date:Saturday, August 30, 2008 time:2:30 PM venue:Cinestudio address:300 Summit Street Hartford, CT 06106 View map from:Cinestudio
(France, 2008) Written and directed by Jacques Nolot. Director of
photography: Josée Deshaies. Cast: Jacques Nolot, Jean-Pol Dubois, Marc
Rioufol, Bastien d'Asnières, Gaetano Weysen-Volli, Bruno Moneglia.
It feels like a great privilege to observe an actor
evolving on screen over time, especially when they portray a recurring
character in a series of films (like Jean-Pierre Léaud's Antoine
Doinel). Filmmaker and actor Jacques Nolot stars in his fourth film as
Pierre, a (now) 60 something gay man whose fortunes are fading with his
beauty and youth. As played with elegance and wry humor by Nolot, the
former Parisian hustler enjoys the irony of having to pay for
'company,' after he is shut out of an inheritance by the uptight family
of his longtime protector. "I hope that Before I Forget will find its
way to movie lovers stateside... one of the loveliest, most direct and
most devastating pictures about aging that I've ever seen." Stephanie
Zacharek, Salon. 108 minutes.
