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Before, Now & Then

Nana

2022

Kamila Andini

Happy Salma, Laura Basuki, Arswendi Nasution, Ibnu Jamil ...

5.8

262

Drama The 1960s in Indonesia were a period of dramatic political change and turmoil, with Suharto’s coup ousting Sukarno and leading to a violent anti-communist purge. Nana, a gentle, beautiful young woman, has been badly affected by the conflict. Her husband was kidnapped and taken into the forest. Although she managed to escape from the gang leader who wanted to force her to marry him, the incident cost her father his life and drove her ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"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"
		Stephanie Bunbury Deadline	"Before, Now & Then is a very carefully wrought arthouse film of the kind we used to see a good deal more in festivals, wreathed in poetic melancholy and never less than beautiful"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"It’s a handsomely mounted period piece (...) But the storytelling, by writer and director Kamila Andini, is exceptionally slow"
		Michael Nordine Variety	"Wong Kar-Wai meets Apichatpong Weerasethakul in transfixing political drama (...) [Happy Salma] is revelatory in the role."
		Jacob Oller Paste Magazine	"Masterful performance [from Salma] (...) Violence, political strife, marital problems —the world keeps on turning, but 'Before, Now & Then' explores what's needed to hold steady through it all"
		Rory O'Connor The Film Stage	"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 genres most reliable tropes"

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