Before the Time Comes

Before the Time Comes
French	Le Temps de l'avant
Directed by	Anne Claire Poirier
Written by	Marthe Blackburn Louise Carré Anne Claire Poirier
Produced by	Anne Claire Poirier
Starring	Luce Guilbeault Pierre Gobeil Paule Baillargeon
Cinematography	Michel Brault Suzanne Gabori
Edited by	Jacques Gagné Christian Marcotte
Music by	Maurice Blackburn
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	April 17, 1975 (1975-04-17)
Running time	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]

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.

External links

• Before the Time Comes at IMDb