Before I Forget: Press reviews

Writer-director-actor Jacques Nolot delivers a bold, searching and open-hearted turn as the subject of this confessional study of life as an elderly gay gent in the French capital.'

'A lovely, understated film about getting old.'

'oddly affecting even while oddly inert'

'watchable, if sobering'

'A persuasive, warts-and-all portrayal of a self-involved, not particularly likeable man,'

'It's an intelligent movie, but doesn't offer much in the way of catharsis to get you through its severe melancholy.'

'Tortuously slow but unexpectedly charming'

'Geriatrically paced but genuinely compassionate, Before I Forget introduces a world of ageing bodies, fading libidos and lives spent in thrall to fleeting pleasures. Whether it's one you'll want to visit depends on your stomach for watching grumpy old men unenthusiastically humping each other.'

'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.'

'It's a frank, infinitely sad, painfully honest, wholly unsalacious film'

'It doesn't add up to much as a story, but as an account of a demi-monde defiant in its loucheness and loneliness it has its moments of odd grace.'