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Before the Time Comes
19751 h 27 min 47 secFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction
Direction: Anne Claire Poirier
Production: Anne Claire Poirier
Script: Louise CarréMarthe BlackburnAnne Claire Poirier
The film examines, in depth and with sobriety, the question of contraception and abortion through the story of a woman, happily married, with three children, who, with her husband, must make the agonizing decision of whether to give life.
Availability
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Subject categories
- Sexuality and Reproduction > AbortionBirth Control
- Women > AbortionPregnancy and BirthSexuality and Reproduction
Credits
- director
- Anne Claire Poirier
- producer
- Anne Claire Poirier
- script
- Louise Carré
- Marthe Blackburn
- Anne Claire Poirier
- camera
- Michel Brault
- sound
- Joseph Champagne
- editing
- Jacques Gagné
- re-recording
- Michel Descombes
- Richard Besse
- music
- Maurice Blackburn
- Angèle Arsenault
- cast
- Angèle Arsenault
- Paule Baillargeon
- Nicolas Dufresne
- J.-Léo Gagnon
- Roger Garceau
- Pierre Gobeil
- Luce Guilbeault
- Jean-Pierre Légaré
- Jean Mathieu
- Viviane Neya
- Catherine Potvin
- Marisol Sarrazin
Awards
- Mention given by the Conseil national des femmes BelgesInternational Festival of Women's Films