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Before the Time Comes
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'Before the Time Comes' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Claire Poirier and released in 1975.Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/temps-avant-anne-claire-poirier/ "Temps de lavant, Le Film de Anne Claire Poirier"]. 'Films du Qubec', April 27, 2009. The film stars Luce Guilbeault as Hlne, 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.Gerald Pratley, 'A Century of Canadian Cinema'. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 23.
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.
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