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Time to Leave
Strand Releasing
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
François Ozon
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| DIRECTED BY: |
François Ozon
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 28, 2006
Theatrical: July 14, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
80 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Le Temps Qui Reste"
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...
100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
Another worthy performance comes from Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi.
90
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's a magnificent miniature, a supremely tender work that's full of emotion and even sentimentality.
90
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.
88
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.
88
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The film rests entirely on Poupaud's shoulders, and he rises to the demands of a complex, deeply unsympathetic role.
75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Time to Leave may not have made me cry, but it's affecting nonetheless.
75
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.
70
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.
70
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.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Staff (Not credited)
A short and succinct film but it lingers long in the memory.
70
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.
70
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
As with any Ozon film, Time to Leave comes across with unexpected moments of illuminated stillness.
70
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.
67
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.
67
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.
60
Variety
Leslie Felperin
Francois Ozon's Time to Leave reps one of the helmer's most straightforward, but perhaps least interesting pics.
50
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.
50
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.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter Addiego
Not up to Ozon's standards.
50
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Time to Leave is an unintended litmus test for lovers of foreign films.
40
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.
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