The Future Tense

""In different places, different thoughts emerge." Irish artists, Desperate Optimists (aka Molloy and Lawlor) have spent three decades in England – raising their now nearly-adult daughter Molly, and putting down creative and personal roots. In The Future Tense, they consider whether it’s now time to make a move, in an essay film as erudite as it is funny. They explore their own migration story, those of many before them and ask: "does Ireland have an addiction to mass immigration?" And if so, how has English colonialism shaped that? With wit and audacity, they glide from the metaphorical significance of a gap between the director’s teeth to the story of a radicalised English debutante, all the while reflecting on their own shifting feelings about England post-Brexit. But at the heart of the story is the poignant question of their future: will they stay, or will they go? Molly, Christine and Joe must decide."
(Tricia Tuttle - BFI London Film Festival)