Before the Rain

Before the Rain

Time Never Dies, the Circle is Not Round.

NR 1994 · 113 min · ★ 7.4 · Drama, War

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.

Directed by Milcho Manchevski · Written by Milcho Manchevski

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