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1975 Canadian film
Before the Time Comes
FrenchLe Temps de l'avant
Directed byAnne Claire Poirier
Written byMarthe Blackburn
Louise Carré
Anne Claire Poirier
Produced byAnne Claire Poirier
StarringLuce Guilbeault
Pierre Gobeil
Paule Baillargeon
CinematographyMichel Brault
Suzanne Gabori
Edited byJacques Gagné
Christian Marcotte
Music byMaurice Blackburn
Production
company
National Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • April 17, 1975 (1975-04-17)
Running time93 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Before the Time Comes (French: Le Temps de l'avant) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Claire Poirier and released in 1975. The film stars Luce Guilbeault as Hélène, a housewife and mother who is raising her three children largely on her own without much help from her itinerant sailor husband Gabriel (Pierre Gobeil); when she becomes pregnant for a fourth time, she struggles both with her conscience and the opinions of her husband and her sister Monique (Paule Baillargeon) as she considers whether or not to have an abortion.

It was the first Canadian film ever to address the subject of abortion.

The film opened in Quebec theatres in 1975, and was subsequently screened in the International Critics' Week program at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.

References

  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Temps de l’avant, Le – Film de Anne Claire Poirier". Films du Québec, April 27, 2009.
  2. ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 23.

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