Avant Que J'Oublie (Before I Forget)

From acclaimed writer/actor/director Jacques Nolot comes this emotionally raw story of a 58-year-old man with HIV contemplating his illness, life and past loves.

Jacques Nolot (Wild Reeds, The Witnesses) plays Pierre, a writer and former gigolo. At 58, Pierre’s hustler days are gone. Instead he is on the other end of the sex trade, plying youth with cash, with a casualness that hides neither guilt nor shame.

HIV positive for over two decades, Pierre navigates his daily life with apparent ease.  But behind his laissez-faire attitude and dark, wry humour hides a man struggling with his past and mortality. 

With fierce intellect and underlying wit, Jacques Nolot delivers the third installment of his trilogy (following L'Arriere Pays and Porn Theatre/Glowing Eyes) on gay life.  

Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2007
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2007
Director Jacques Nolot
FRANCE, 2007, 108 min

French with English subtitles