Set outside the pastoral French village of Perpignan (Sarasota’s sister city since 1994), “I Forgot To Tell You” follows the ebbing of Sharif’s aging artist, Jaume, into dementia. Jaume is an absolute lion who resists the inevitable as if spun from a whirlwind in a Dylan Thomas poem.
But from the flowers in the refrigerator to vinegar in the cake mix, Jaume’s narrow ledge disintegrates in wrenching increments. The burden of resolving the unending humiliations ultimately falls to his young apprentice,
