Before the Time Comes | |
Native Name: | |
Director: | Anne Claire Poirier |
Producer: | Anne Claire Poirier |
Starring: | Luce Guilbeault Pierre Gobeil Paule Baillargeon |
Music: | Maurice Blackburn |
Cinematography: | Michel Brault Suzanne Gabori |
Editing: | Jacques Gagné Christian Marcotte |
Studio: | National Film Board of Canada |
Runtime: | 93 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | French |
Before the Time Comes (French: Le Temps de l'avant) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Claire Poirier and released in 1975.[1] 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.[2]
It was the first Canadian film ever to address the subject of abortion.[2]
The film opened in Quebec theatres in 1975, and was subsequently screened in the International Critics' Week program at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.[1]