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North / Don't Forget You're Going to Die ( Nord / N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir ) ( North / Do not Forget You are Going to Die ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]

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I have yet to see 'North', but I did recently track down 'Don't
Forget You're Going to Die'

Saw it on line (on MUBI, the only place I could find it, and a good,
legitimate source for some more obscure foreign and indie films) and
would love to see it again on a bigger screen.

Low key but intense, this follows a young man who tries to evade his
army service with a false suicide, only to find out he has HIV at a
time when it was more a death sentence. His life spins out of controls
as he turns to drug use and drug dealing to hide his pain, and forget
his impending demise.

Then he meets a woman who offers some hope and real love, but can he
actually accept it, knowing how short his horizon is?

The acting is good, but not great, and some of the character turns are
sudden to the point of feeling almost arbitrary. Some memorable scenes
and images, but it all stays pretty distanced and unemotional. A second
viewing would be instructional.