Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
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Before Tomorrow
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Dec 2, 2009 – Dec 15, 2009
Daily
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- Price
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$11
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Closing out the Fast Runner trilogy on an elegiac note, Before Tomorrow offers a periscope to Inuit life in 1840, when the Arctic lands and floes neared the end of its pre-Western, pre-everything era. When the characters speak — accent on when — they do so in the Inukitut language, just one anthropological detail caught by native filmmakers Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu as if in amber. The seal-skin dress, period tools, and the premonitory ballads and oral culture ephemera only lend an authenticity and context to the gorgeous, slow-burning tale, which documents the adoring relationship between a grandmother (played by Ivalu) and grandson (actual grandson Paul-Dylan Ivalu) as they weather changes of season and scenery.
