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Before Need (1979) | Slate

Before Need

“We started with some dream images, a few actors, friends, and relatives. Slowly the film evolved into sequences or images that expressed the emotional discoveries of an aging woman… Standards of Perfection applied to all the selves, the relationships, the layers of memory.” — G.N./D.W.

Released: 1979
Runtime: 1h 15m
Language: English

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Gunvor NelsonDirector

Dorothy WileyDirector

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