Event Listing - Movies, Gay
Fri Aug 1 - Thu Aug 7

SFFS Screen presents

Before I Forget


Website
$7.50 - $10.50
Tickets

Location
Date and Time
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
1881 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
cross street: Fillmore
district: Japantown/Fillmore

Fri Aug 1 (11:20am, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15 and 9:50pm)
Sat Aug 2 (11:20am, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15 and 9:50pm)
Sun Aug 3 (11:20am, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15 and 9:50pm)
Mon Aug 4 (11:20am, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15 and 9:50pm)
Tue Aug 5 (11:20am, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15 and 9:50pm)

Description
Before I Forget, which had its premiere in the Directors Fortnight in 2007 at Cannes, is the final installment in a trilogy of autobiographical films, all starring the respected contemporary French writer/director Jacques Nolot. Specializing in slow-burn languor, Nolot quietly builds up offhand observations and incisive characterizations into surprisingly emotional dénouements.

A sobering yet slyly humorous rumination on the cruel realities of growing old, Before I Forget is his finest work yet. Pierre is an aging café philosopher and dapper ex-gigolo in mourning for both his recently deceased patron and for his vanished past. No longer the carefree cocotte of his youth, Pierre now must contend with HIV-related illness, writer’s block and an aging body that can’t keep up with his still thriving libido. Staving off depression through visits with finicky friends, his unflappable shrink and young hustlers, chain-smoking Pierre is a uniquely French embodiment of world-weary sophistication.