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Desperately honest performance in Before I Forget

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Jacques Nolot’s film is the concluding part of a trilogy in which the director plays Pierre-Jackie, a gay transvestite in Paris.

Here, he is an ageing man confronted by sickness, death and loneliness and reduced to paying young hustlers for their favours. The film is desperately honest and has the look of minimalist truth about it.

Nolot clearly knows what he is talking about and, as in The Hinterland and Porn Theatre, the two previous autobiographical studies, has the merit of drawing you into this depressing world with stoic realism. It’s not, however, a bundle of fun to watch.

Before I Forget (Avant Que J'Oublie)

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