Before the Time Comes (1975)

Original title

Le Temps de l'avant

Directed by

Anne Claire Poirier

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A housewife and mother of three children finds herself pregnant again. She wrestles with her own conscience and the conflicting views of her husband and sister about whether to get an abortion.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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