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Time to Leave

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Foreign
Written by: François Ozon
Directed by: François Ozon
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 14, 2006
DVD: November 28, 2006
Running Time: 80 minutes, Color
Origin: France
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Daniel Duval, Marie Rivière, Christian Sengewald, Louise-Anne Hippeau, and Henri de Lorme
A handsome, successful fashion photographer (Poupaud) learns that he has a malignant brain tumor that will soon kill him. Hiding his diagnosis, he alienates his family and his young boyfriend, but during a short stay with his grandmother (Moreau), his vulnerability is met with a big heart and sound advice. A chance encounter with a roadside café waitress (Bruni-Tedeschi) results in an unusual bargain that provides a happy, playful dimension to the proceedings. (Strand Releasing)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
Another worthy performance comes from Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
It's a magnificent miniature, a supremely tender work that's full of emotion and even sentimentality.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
This is the most personal, deeply felt film from the gifted director of "Under the Sand" and "Swimming Pool." Ozon leaches his melodrama of all sentimentality, and moves us all the more.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Time to Leave just might be Ozon's best work yet. He tackles a sensitive, off-putting subject with a dignity that will put viewers at ease. Poupaud connects as the dying man and Moreau is - Moreau, a French national treasure.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The film rests entirely on Poupaud's shoulders, and he rises to the demands of a complex, deeply unsympathetic role.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Time to Leave may not have made me cry, but it's affecting nonetheless.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
What makes the film intriguing, and somewhat off-putting, is that Romain is deliberately portrayed as a heel; he strains his relations with his lover and his family, except for his grandmother (Moreau), to the breaking point.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Time to Leave subordinates narrative to mood. Since the end of the story is never in doubt, the only surprises lie in the particulars of Romain’s behavior and the nuances of sorrow, determination and doubt that pass over Mr. Poupaud’s face.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
As with all Ozon's work, Time to Leave resounds with grace notes. The wide-screen cinematography by Jeanne Lapoirie offsets (or maybe disguises) the movie's narrow scope, and there's something private--withholding--in Poupaud's beauty that gives his misanthropy a touch of mystery.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Staff (Not credited)
A short and succinct film but it lingers long in the memory.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
The same quiet ecstasy that made the final moments of "Under the Sand" so moving works on the viewer here too, inspiring joy and naked grief in equal measure.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
As with any Ozon film, Time to Leave comes across with unexpected moments of illuminated stillness.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Philip Kennicott
The splendid, painterly melodramas of Douglas Sirk lurk behind every shot, but the tone is essentially pre-Raphaelite, sexy and cold.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Ozon's disappointing new film Time To Leave is his "The Flower Of My Secret," a Douglas Sirk-inspired weepie about a terminal cancer victim making amends, but it's a little too sentimental and square even by his recent standards.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Moreau's few ripe scenes are choice, and she spices up the joint with her gravelly voice of je ne regrette rien.
Read Full Review >Variety Leslie Felperin
Francois Ozon's Time to Leave reps one of the helmer's most straightforward, but perhaps least interesting pics.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Dennis Lim
Time to Leave amounts simply to a semi-thoughtful disease-of-the-week weepie, admirable in its restraint but shying from the terror of the situation.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
2005 French feature by the highly uneven Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool, Under the Sand), who doesn't have much to say about his subject that's fresh.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Time to Leave is an unintended litmus test for lovers of foreign films.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Steve Davis
This oddly dispassionate film about a young man dying of cancer is the French antidote to those Hollywood weepies in which the heroine courageously faces her own mortality with every hair in place.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Len W. gave it a10:
Profoundly sad but with a small ray of hope, this beautiful film centers on a vain, selfish photgrapher and his struggle to bring meaning to the end of his life. Unable to tell his lover or family of his plight, he confides only in his grandmother (Jeanne Moreau) who similarly chose an outcast role when grief overtook her in the past.
