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100Another worthy performance comes from Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi.
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90It's a magnificent miniature, a supremely tender work that's full of emotion and even sentimentality.
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90This 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.
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88Time 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.
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88The film rests entirely on Poupaud's shoulders, and he rises to the demands of a complex, deeply unsympathetic role.
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75Time to Leave may not have made me cry, but it's affecting nonetheless.
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75What 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.
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A short and succinct film but it lingers long in the memory.
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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.
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70The 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.
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70As with any Ozon film, Time to Leave comes across with unexpected moments of illuminated stillness.
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70Time 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.
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70The splendid, painterly melodramas of Douglas Sirk lurk behind every shot, but the tone is essentially pre-Raphaelite, sexy and cold.
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67Moreau's few ripe scenes are choice, and she spices up the joint with her gravelly voice of je ne regrette rien.
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67Ozon'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.
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60Francois Ozon's Time to Leave reps one of the helmer's most straightforward, but perhaps least interesting pics.
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50Not up to Ozon's standards.
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50Time to Leave is an unintended litmus test for lovers of foreign films.
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50Time 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.
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502005 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.
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40This 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.
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