The Future Tense

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The Future Tense

2022

1h 29m

Documentary

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When two Irish filmmakers travel home from London with their daughter, they reflect on their relationship to Ireland, and their adopted home, England.

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

The Future Tense is an absorbing part of the Lawlor-Molloy body of work; a densely significant filmic text in which passion and pain are kept in check, but always simmering close to the surface.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 21, 2023

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

A messy, meandering and often very moving joy.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 16, 2023

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

It’s a fascinating, intellectually agile work that manages to be both intensely personal while also relevant to anyone who has ever questioned whether they really know their home country.

Feb 24, 2023

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Chris Wasser

Sunday Independent (Ireland)

With The Future Tense, Irish filmmakers Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, aka Desperate Optimists, deliver a clever, complex documentary about the idea of home. Where is it, what does it mean, who are we without one?

Rated: 3/5

Aug 24, 2023

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Paul Whitington

Irish Independent

A thoughtful, funny and sometimes profound film that is bound to make you think.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 18, 2023

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janet p

Incredible weaving of personal history with cultural and political events told in an original and often very humorous fashion. Loved it

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/24/24

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Synopsis

When two Irish filmmakers travel home from London with their daughter, they reflect on their relationship to Ireland, and their adopted home, England.

Director: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 29m