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  • 2023
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2023
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 43 m

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 carr...

Directed By: Kamila Andini

Written By: Ahda Imran, Kamila Andini

  • 2023
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2023
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 43 m

Before, Now & Then

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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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 carr...

Directed By: Kamila Andini

Written By: Ahda Imran, Kamila Andini

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
70
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6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
70
75% Positive
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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90
Aug 24, 2023
It’s beautiful and heartbreaking in equal measure.
By Bobby LePire FULL REVIEW
90
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.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Michael Nordine FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Rory O'Connor FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Devika Girish FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Fourcoulours Films, Titimangsa Foundation
Release Date Aug 25, 2023
Duration 1 h 43 m
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Awards

Festival Film Indonesia
• 5 Wins & 11 Nominations
Maya Awards
• 3 Wins & 11 Nominations
Indonesian Movie Actor Awards
• 1 Win & 10 Nominations

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