Benoît is a student in Art History. When it is time for him to do his mandatory military service, he feels that his carefully planned life is falling apart. A fake suicide attempt gets him exempted, but it leads him to learn something for worse than Army life. Something irrevocable : as the Army doctor told him, his AIDS test result is in fact positive. He quickly realizes he will never be the same again 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…
Original title: N’OUBLIE PAS QUE TU VAS MOURIR
1996 – 1h58mn – Drama – French
With : Xavier Beauvois, Chiara Mastroianni, Roschdy Zem
Cannes – Special jury prize