Don't Forget You're Going to Die
aka N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir First screened in April 2015
Director: Xavier Beauvois. Cast: Xavier Beauvois, Roschdy Zem, Jean Douchet, Chiara Mastroianni, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Louis Richard, Emmanuel Salinger, Pascal Bonitzer (!), Cédric Kahn, Stanislas Nordey, Denis Psaltopoulos, Patrick Chauvel. Screenplay: Xavier Beauvois, Emmanuel Salinger, Anne-Marie Sauzeau, and Zoubir Tligui. Twitter Capsule:
Easy to underestimate ambition of realist drama in this mold. Ideas worthy but need more shaping.
VOR:③
Character drama that's willing to study one man so closely while withholding so much and eliding so many links among scenes is certainly taking risks. Still, pretty much a footnote.
