Past Perfect
A FILM BY Daniel MacIvor
A FILM BY Daniel MacIvor
... a finely etched portrait of late thirty-something loneliness.
-Eye Weekly
Sweet, smart and funny, Past Perfect offers the perfect antidote to Hollywood schmaltz.
-Katherine Monk, Vancouver Sun
Synopsis
Past Perfect takes place over two days, two years apart. On an overnight flight from Halifax to Vancouver, Charlotte (Rebecca Jenkins), an unemployed sales clerk on the verge of giving up on her dream of marriage and children, finds herself sitting next to the nervous and seemingly stuffy Cecil (Daniel MacIvor), a linguistics professor who is in the process of ending a long-term relationship with a woman (Marie Brassard) who does not share his desire for a family. Over the course of the flight Charlotte and Cecil find themselves falling into one another's lives and in love Intercut with their meeting is a Saturday two years later. Charlotte and Cecil now live together in Halifax and are in the midst of a crisis in their relationship. What starts off seeming like a case of a couple's general malaise, reveals itself to be the fallout from a very specific tragedy, one which forces Charlotte and Cecil to decide whether the the end of a dream means the end of the relationship.
Original Languages: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Running Time: 82 min.
Year: 2002
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Running Time: 82 min.
Year: 2002
CREDITS
CAST
Daniel MacIvor
Rebecca Jenkins
DIRECTED BY
Daniel MacIvor
PHOTOS
Daniel MacIvor as Cecil; partial Rebecca Jenkins as Charlotte to left
Left to right: Rebecca Jenkins as Charlotte, Daniel MacIvor as Cecil
Rebecca Jenkins as Charlotte; partial Daniel MacIvor as Cecil to right
Rebecca Jenkins as Charlotte
Left to right: Rebecca Jenkins as Charlotte, Daniel MacIvor as Cecil
Rebecca Jenkins as Charlotte
