Don't Forget You're Going to Die

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Don't Forget You're Going to Die
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Film poster
Directed by Xavier Beauvois
Written byXavier Beauvois
Emmanuel Salinger
Anne-Marie Sauzeau
Marie Sauzeau
Zoubir Tligui
Produced by Christopher Lambert
StarringXavier Beauvois
Cinematography Caroline Champetier
Edited by Agnès Guillemot
Music by John Cale
Production
companies
Why Not Productions
La Sept Cinéma
AFCL Productions
Peripheria
Distributed by PolyGram Film Distribution
Release dates
  • May 1995 (1995-05)(Cannes)
  • 3 January 1996 (1996-01-03)(France)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget€ 3.6 million [1]

Don't Forget You're Going to Die (French : N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir, French pronunciation: [nublipatyvamuʁiʁ] ) is a 1995 French drama film directed, co-written by and starring Xavier Beauvois.

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Plot

Benoit (Xavier Beauvois) has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten about National Service. After he is called up, he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he tries suicide. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive. Benoit tumbles down into the drug scene. Then he goes to Italy and meets Claudia (Chiara Mastroianni). Things seem to improve, but only for a short time... [2]

Cast

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed and largely performed by John Cale, and was subsequently released as an album. [3]

Accolades

The film won the Jury Prize at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. [4] [ further explanation needed ]

References

  1. "N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir". JP's Box-Office.
  2. "Don't Forget You're Going to Die". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  3. John Cale - N'Oublie Pas Que Tu Vas Mourir, 1995, retrieved 2022-08-13
  4. "Festival de Cannes: N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-09-04.