Before, Now & Then

Name: Before, Now & Then
Genre: Drama, History
Released: August 25, 2023
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Arawinda Kirana, Arswendi Nasution, Chempa Puteri, Happy Salma, Ibnu Jamil

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Film Movement | Release Date: August 25, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Arawinda Kirana, Arswendi Nasution, Chempa Puteri, Happy Salma, Ibnu Jamil, Laura Basuki, Rieke Diah Pitaloka

Summary: Set amid the political violence of late-1960s Indonesia, Kamila Andini's intoxicating film Before, Now & Then follows Nana, the beautiful wife of a wealthy plantation owner whose inner life remains with her deceased first husband, murdered in the civil war a decade prior. A survivor, Nana values her safety and material comforts, but carriesSet amid the political violence of late-1960s Indonesia, Kamila Andini's intoxicating film Before, Now & Then follows Nana, the beautiful wife of a wealthy plantation owner whose inner life remains with her deceased first husband, murdered in the civil war a decade prior. A survivor, Nana values her safety and material comforts, but carries out a haunted existence, dreaming of her lost love. Forced to confront her husband's blatant infidelity, Nana makes an unusual connection with his younger mistress, Ino. The two women, sharing their secrets and desires, discover a newfound freedom and intimacy withheld from them both by the strictures of patriarchal society. … Expand

Director: Kamila Andini

Genre(s): Drama, History

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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Bobby LePire

Aug 24, 2023

It’s beautiful and heartbreaking in equal measure. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Feb 16, 2022

Andini and her collaborators, especially lead actor Happy Salma, offer a precisely calibrated, emotionally nuanced exploration of one woman going through a mid-life crisis in rural Indonesia during the 1960s that both looks and sounds stunning thanks to above-and-beyond craft contributions. Read full review

Michael Nordine

Feb 16, 2022

Before, Now & Then moves with its own dreamy cadence, with narrative developments washing over the film like waves. Closing your eyes once it’s over, you might even experience the sensation of having been in the water all afternoon as those gentle waves lapped over you — and longing to return to them. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Feb 16, 2022

Drawing a number of deeply felt performances from her cast, it is an aching period piece, if frankly staid, that comes complete with many of the genre’s most reliable tropes: sharp intakes of breath; glances stolen through laced curtains; and love, as ever, in opprobrium. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 28, 2023

Before, Now & Then is a dreamy Indonesian drama about changing expectations and ideas of “freedom” that pass through the life of a Muslim woman through twenty years of her life. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Feb 16, 2022

It’s a handsomely mounted period piece, which acknowledges the strength required by previous generations of Indonesian women to rise above the patriarchal demands of a restrictive society. But the storytelling, by writer and director Kamila Andini, is exceptionally slow and can be rather laboured in the points that it makes. Read full review

Devika Girish

Aug 24, 2023

It’s a pity for both Salma and Basuki, whose expressive faces convey depths of feeling that the script and direction cannot quite match. Read full review

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