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Before, Now & Then

Nana, a gentle, beautiful young woman, escapes a violent anti-communist purge. Afterwards she lives comfortably as the second wife of a rich Sundanese man but her past re-emerges in her dreams.
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 into poverty. Several years later, she is living comfortably as the second wife of a rich Sundanese man, with a maid to help her adjust to her new environment. But Nana’s past re-emerges in her dreams. Kamila Andini’s elegant direction effectively adopts her protagonist’s point of view, integrating her trauma into the film’s narration. Played with subtlety by Happy Salma, the secretive Nana seems never quite certain about her husband’s death and her memories are, perhaps for her own good, not always complete. This ambiguity informs the film and, combined with lush cinematography and a deep sense of nostalgia, makes Nana an elegiac wonder. At its heart lies an unexpected female friendship that feels like a crucial lifeline among the sea of adversities caused by men’s brutality.
Original title
Nana
English title
Before, Now & Then
Year
2022
Country
Language
INDONESIAN
Subtitles
CZ
Running time
103 min
Genre
Age rating
15+
Release date CZ
11. 5. 2023
Release date SK
11. 5. 2023

Festivals
National
Be2Can
International
Berlinale
Directed by
Cinematography
Sound by
Music by
DVD / Blu-ray
DCP, MP4


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Awards

Berlinale IFF
Best Supporting Performance
2022

Media reception

Variety
Aesthetic flourishes... betray Wong Kar-Wai’s influence on the film and elevate it from bog-standard festival fare to intoxicating sensory experience“
Hollywood Reporter
"A precisely calibrated, emotionally nuanced exploration of one woman going through a mid-life crisis in rural Indonesia during the 1960s."

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