Before What Comes After [M]
Presented by Intrepid Travel
Organised by BREC and Alliance Française Perth
Liberté Pass One Pass, Three Entries: $55
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Valid for 3 entries to the 36th Alliance Française French Film Festival screenings held at BREC from 10th to 13th April 2025, except the VIP Opening Event.
Liberté Passes can be purchased online, or via the BREC Box Office on 1300 661 272.
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DIRECTOR Costa-Gavras
CAST Charlotte Rampling, Hiam Abbass, Ángela Molina, Karin Viard, Régis Debray, Agathe Bonitzer
LANGUAGE French with English subtitles
COUNTRY France
GENRE Drama
CATEGORY HAVE IT YOUR WAY
RUN TIME 100 mins
YEAR 2024
RATING M – Mature themes and sex scenes
POST SCREENING Q&A WITH JULIEANNE HILBERS – SATURDAY 12 APRIL
Join us after Saturday’s screening of Before What Comes After for a Q&A with ECU educator, psychologist and researcher, Dr Julieanne Hilbers.
Le Dernier Souffle
At 91, legendary director Costa-Gavras’ BEFORE WHAT COMES AFTER is a poignant tragicomedy inspired by the work of Régis Debray and Claude Grange. Deeply personal, this is a rare chance to witness a cinematic titan reflecting on life and mortality.
What begins as a chance encounter during a routine checkup evolves into a profound friendship between acclaimed philosopher Fabrice Toussaint (Denis Podalydès, The President’s Wife, AF FFF24) and head of palliative care doctor Augustin Masset (Kad Merad, The Big Hit, AF FFF21).
Woven through radical conversations with Masset, his team of passionate caregivers, and their patients, Costa-Gavras unearths our buried fears of death and dying while gently reminding us of the art of listening. Guided by Masset’s radical approach to patient care, Toussaint discovers the power of returning choice to the body and the dignity in dying as one chooses.
Dialogical and Socratic in tone, yet never stuffy, this film lyrically grapples with unanswerable questions, responding to our existential fears with love and care. In the spirit of groundbreaking philosophical films like My Dinner with André, Costa-Gavras deftly teaches without instructing. Daring to ask life’s biggest questions, BEFORE WHAT COMES AFTER invites us to listen closely – the answers may surprise us.
“As a testimony about the end of life by a filmmaker who, at 91, is clearly looking – and looking clearly – at the end of his own, it is truly a wonder.”
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Ticket Prices
Tickets: $20
Child: $17
Liberté Pass
One Pass, Three Entries
Full: $55
For the best value on your cinema tickets, buy a Liberté Pass! Valid for 3 entries to the 36th Alliance Française French Film Festival screenings held at BREC from 10th to 13th April 2025, except the VIP Opening Event.
Liberté Passes can be purchased online, or via the BREC Box Office on 1300 661 272.
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