Don't Forget You're Going to Die
Synopsis
Benoît is a student in Art History. When it is time for him to do his mandatory military service, he feels that his crefully planned life is falling apart. A fake suicide attempt gets him exemted, but it leads him to learn something for worse than Army life. Something irrevocable : as the Army doctor told him, his test result are in fact positive. He tries to come to terms with this. However he quickly realizes he will never be the same agoin and like the Romantic heroes of his former life, he chooses to reject his destiny and to transform his existence in a constant exaltation of the senses...
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Director (1)
Actors (21)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Why Not Productions
- Co-productions : La Sept Cinéma, AFCL Productions, Peripheria
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Bureau Sales
- French distribution : Polygram
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producer : Pascal Caucheteux
- Screenwriter : Xavier Beauvois
- Director of photography : Caroline Champetier
- Music Composer : John Cale
- Assistant directors : Stéphane Batut, Etienne Albrecht
- Editor : Agnès Guillemot
- Sound recordists : Jean-Bernard Thomasson, Jean Umansky, Éric Bonnard
- Costume designer : Olga Pelletier
- Line Producer : Grégoire Sorlat
- Co-producer : Christophe Lambert
- Assistant Operators : Laurent Hincelin, Julien Hirsch
- Production managers : Martine Cassinelli, Mat Troi Day
- Press Attaché (film) : Agnès Chabot
- Assistant editors : Lise Truong, Barbara Bascou, Christophe Nowak
- Continuity supervisor : Agathe Grau
- Production Designer : Denis Barbier
- Make-up Artist : Florence Fouquier D'Herouel
- Sound Mixer : Éric Bonnard
- Still Photographer : Jean-Claude Lother
- Location Manager : Serge Catoire
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Illness
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1995
- French release : 03/01/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 58 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 83.833
- Visa issue date : 22/01/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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About
"I wondered how a guy like me, even more ordinary than me, would react to a sentence of death. A guy who has had no life at all and is robbed of his future by a fatal illness. So I made a film about getting kicks : getting a kick out of drugs, sex, love art, motherhood and travel, getting a kick out of beauty and ugliness, right up to getting a kick out of war."
(Xavier Beauvois)
