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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sensuality
Starring Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet, Jean-Pierre Mangeot, Monique Mangeot, Nicolas Kalsch, Marie Cantet, and Félix Cantet
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)
| GENRE(S): | Foreign |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Robin Campillo
Laurent Cantet |
| DIRECTED BY: | Laurent Cantet |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 14, 2003 Video: January 14, 2003 Theatrical: March 29, 2002 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 132 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | France |
| LANGUAGE(S): | French (with English subtitles) |
Original Frech title "L'Emploi du Temps," which translates as "Timetable"; Don Quixote Award, 2001 Venice Film Festival
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
JF Harrumph gave it a 10:
Um let me make an immediate point that everyone, including the critics, seems to have missed: the movie isn't about existentential crisis and high falutin abstract concepts, it's about the mental illness of the Vincent character. It's about a condition of deep denial. It happens and it's real. The movie is highly effective, and the content of the movie demanded the slow creepy pacing, anything otherwise would have been ineffective. I was knocked out by it.
Buttered Popcorn gave it a 6:
I think Paula W.'s review about hit it on the head. I kept waiting to find a little something more in this movie, but it just didn't come. The character who plays the smuggling kingpin stole the show.
Ryan gave it a 10:
The ending makes me cry. Its heartbreaking irony, intense emotions, and beautiful music are just too much. No other film in 2002 came close to achieving the power of this film.
Paula W. gave it a 7:
The concept is promising, and the movie gets off to a good start: a laid-off executive drives around all day, calling his wife at intervals to tell her he's in meetings, covering the mouthpiece when the kids at the playground get too noisy. It can't last and he digs himself deeper and deeper in an attempt to keep up appearances at home. This is a painful story to watch, and the pitch-perfect, unflinching acting makes it even more so. But the pain is ratcheted up to unbearable and, I think, unnnecessary levels by the glacial pace at which the story moves. In many scenes we watch in real time as the protagonist pulls off the highway and into a parking lot, in silence. The visuals in the movie are stylish enough in an anti-stylish way: cramped, flat, indoors, in the car or under a cloudy sky, but nothing that justifies holding each shot this long. The 132 minutes of the movie seem as long as the entire seven months of the character's ordeal. This may be the point, to make you feel the character's pain and bewilderment as he feels it, but that's more pain than I care to volunteer for.
Jim L. gave it a 3:
Boring. Didn't find anything - characters, plot or actions- of interest here.
Klondike V. gave it a 1:
this movie was terrible! it felt like a long slow death... and i'm usually a fan of "art" movies! i can't believe what high marks and praise people have given it here.. the main character was a psychopath! there was nothing sympathetic about him!
Chad S. gave it a 10:
"Time Out" is an art film. "Amelie" is a commercial film that just happens to be from France. I'm not knocking the Jean-Pierre Jeunet charmer but this amazing movie by Laurent Cantet is the French import people should be going ga-ga over. Cantet nails scene after scene like when Vincent (Aurelian Recoing) parks his car for overnight lodging in the lot after a meeting with his friend/client, or when our vagabond walks through the United Nations headquarters. All those lies Vincent has to maintain, and yet so functional with loved ones. Recoing is superb. I also like how "Time Out" has the same storyline as an episode of "The Flintstones" in which Fred becomes The Gravelberry Pie King. Well, there goes my credibility.
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