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  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • THINKFilm
  • 2 h 14 m
  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • THINKFilm
  • 2 h 14 m
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Summary After losing his job, Vincent (Recoing) can't bring himself to tell his wife (Viard) and children, so he wanders around France during the day, while they think he's at work, and finds himself on a moral and ethical journey of conscience that challenges the notions he's formed about life. (ThinkFilm)

Directed By: Laurent Cantet

Written By: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet

  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • THINKFilm
  • 2 h 14 m
  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • THINKFilm
  • 2 h 14 m

Time Out

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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88
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary After losing his job, Vincent (Recoing) can't bring himself to tell his wife (Viard) and children, so he wanders around France during the day, while they think he's at work, and finds himself on a moral and ethical journey of conscience that challenges the notions he's formed about life. (ThinkFilm)

Directed By: Laurent Cantet

Written By: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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97% Positive
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3% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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3% Mixed
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100
Cantet's masterful study of a white-collar businessman in decline.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
100
Cantet has rich insights into this material, and brings them alive through sensitive acting and powerful filmmaking.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
90
Recoing's performance is a sensitive portrayal of a man in the throes of an excruciating spiritual crisis.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
88
If the movie has a flaw, it's that the working out of Vincent's psychology is too perfect.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
80
A subtle mood piece in which a man's collapse is examined so rigorously that one almost hopes for a murder to come along and break the tension.
By David Ehrenstein FULL REVIEW
75
This is a documentarylike film about a man who creates a castle in the air and then moves right in, the "Harold and the Purple Crayon" of the workplace.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
50
Looks great but moves like molasses, is more interesting than truly involving.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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8 Ratings
25% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Production Company Haut et Court, Arte France Cinéma, Canal+, Centre Européen Cinématographique Rhône-Alpes, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Havas Images, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Sofica Sofinergie 5
Release Date Mar 29, 2002
Duration 2 h 14 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline Now he must decide between his life of lies...or the truth.
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Village Voice Film Poll
• 2 Nominations

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