The Future Tense

• Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy
• 89 min
• Ireland, United Kingdom
• 2022
• Documentary

An Irish director’s couple in exile delivers a clever, quirky and original documentary contemplation about belonging, home, migration and identity.

For the last 20 years, the director’s couple Molloy and Lawlor have been living and raising a daughter in England. During a low-cost flight to Ireland where they’ll do scouting for a film about an England-born IRA revolutionary, they have thoughts about moving back home. The streams of nationalism and populism have grown too strong, and the couple starts weighing their increasing doubts about Great Britain against their ambivalence concerning the homeland. As the couple reads their notes, intentionally "clumsy", from big sheets of paper, awkwardly turned away from the camera, they’re drawing lines through history, delivering one burning thought and quote after another. What is this utopian longing for something really about? And Irish green – does it even exist?

- Camilla Larsson

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