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  • 2009
  • Alliance Vivafilm
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2009
  • Alliance Vivafilm
  • 1 h 33 m
Le jour avant le lendemain

Summary Circa 1840. Two Inuit families meet after many years. It is summer; a happy time to celebrate their reunion, but despite the joyful mood, Ningiuq, an old, cannot stop worrying. She volunteers to dry the bounty of a successful fishing expedition on a remote island--seizing the occasion for some time alone. Her grandson, Maniq, follows he...

Directed By: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Ivalu

Written By: Susan Avingaq, Jørn Riel, Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Ivalu

  • 2009
  • Alliance Vivafilm
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2009
  • Alliance Vivafilm
  • 1 h 33 m

Le jour avant le lendemain

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Circa 1840. Two Inuit families meet after many years. It is summer; a happy time to celebrate their reunion, but despite the joyful mood, Ningiuq, an old, cannot stop worrying. She volunteers to dry the bounty of a successful fishing expedition on a remote island--seizing the occasion for some time alone. Her grandson, Maniq, follows he...

Directed By: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Ivalu

Written By: Susan Avingaq, Jørn Riel, Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Ivalu

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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A profound, elemental and hauntingly beautiful period drama that makes an intimate story of endurance into a metaphor for an entire culture.
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As the movie’s title implies, everything is about to change for these two. These are the last happy days before destructive modernity encroaches.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
80
It’s a historical slice of life that not even most Canadians get to see, never mind the rest of the world, yet the tale is told more with emotion than words, and the language barrier melts away like the snow in spring.
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70
But if the movie's documentary function tends to trump its narrative one, the directors nevertheless manage to locate great reserves of sadness in the material, tapping a particularly rich vein in the wrinkled look of resignation on actress/co-director Ivalu's face.
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70
Frustratingly sketchy partly because it is not finally a survival tale but a mystical evocation of the power of Inuit mythology, and how the passing down of ancient wisdom can sustain the human spirit in the direst circumstances. But the unanswered questions still nag.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
60
The problem here, though, is that the movie often feels fat instead of lean. A terribly purple folk score by Kate and Anna McGarrigle hypes the spiritual aspects of the Inuit way of life; you’ll die laughing on the tundra.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Kunuk Cohn Productions, Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc., Téléfilm Canada, Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC), Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit, Nunavut Film Development, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Nunavut Independent TV Network
Release Date Dec 2, 2009
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Website http://www.beforetomorrow.ca/
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Awards

Genie Awards
• 1 Win & 9 Nominations
American Indian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Jutra Awards
• 4 Nominations

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