Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically
  • Life Inside Me (A)
  • Love Me Tender
  • Doin' It
  • Thirty Years with the Whip
  • Compulsion
  • Inside Amir
  • Peter Hujar's Day
  • Captive (The)
  • Constantinopoliad
  • Weapons
  • Follies
  • I Have Never Been on an Airplane
  • Nova 78'
  • Alexina B. Composing Lives
  • Long Road to the Director's Chair (The)
  • Griffin in Summer
  • Girls & Boys
  • Premiere (The)
  • Unforgivable
  • Wayward
  • Cutaways
  • My Sunnyside
  • Brigitte’s Planet B
  • How Far Does The Dark Go?
  • Brief History of the LGBT+ Press in Brazil (A)
  • Internal Comms
  • Ghost Empire § Mauritius-Chagos
  • Mothers, Lovers and Others
  • Labyrinth of Lost Boys
  • Gunyo Cholo: The Dress
  • Days of August
  • Chica Quinqui
  • After the Hunt
  • Desire Lines
  • History of Two Warriors
  • Einfach machen - She-Punks von 1977 bis heute
  • Couture
  • Out Standing
  • History of Sound (The)

Before You Know It

Country: USA, Language: English, 110 mins

  • Director: PJ Raval
  • Producer: Sara Giustini; PJ Raval

CGiii Comment

Watch Les Invisibles - then compare...

Three elderly gay men: Dennis, Robert and Ty - three very different personalities.

And...let's be truthful...none of them really have a story to tell. Or, the director managed to ignore their stories...opting instead for this...a [mostly] doleful account of their everyday lives.

Robert (the mouth) owns a struggling gay bar in Texas...run by his less-than-competent nephew. With ailing health...the drag queens look as if they might be barless!

Ty (in Halem) desperately wants to get married to his partner - who wants none of it. Somewhere in there, Ty has a story to tell...unfortunately, he doesn't get to tell it.

And then there's Dennis (from Niceville)...now, some would say...this is a sad story...others would recommend a good kick up the arse and/or a personality transplant. Even when he becomes Dee...nothing. He's a dreary old man in or out of a wig...and, going on that gay cruise - alone - was a pitiful mistake and torture to watch.

It's a competent film...in the technical department.

Unfortunately, it goes nowhere, endlessly...traveling in circles with too much [uninteresting] repetition...where was the much-needed editor?

Better subjects would not necessarily have made a better film...that is, if Raval was still at the helm...obviously a man who can't see the wood for the trees. There were stories to be told...they just didn't get told. Bizarre!

Watch Les Invisibles - then compare...


Trailer...

BEFORE YOU KNOW IT - 4min Trailer from PJ Raval on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Three gay seniors navigate the adventures, challenges and surprises of life and love in their golden years.