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Time to Leave

6.6

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Original title: Le temps qui reste
Year: 2005
Running time: 75 min.
Country: France
Director: François Ozon
Screenwriter: François Ozon
Cinematography: Jeanne Lapoirie
Cast: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Daniel Duval, Marie Rivière, Christian Sengewald, Louise-Anne Hippeau, Henri de Lorme
Producer: Fidélité Productions, Studiocanal, France 2 Cinema, Canal+, TPS Star, Banque Populaire Images
Genre: Drama | Disease/illness. Gay & Lesbian. Photography
Synopsis: A handsome, successful fashion photographer (Melvil Poupaud, strong in a role any young actor would covet) passes out during a gruelling shoot. When doctors come to deliver the bad news, his first instinct as a gay man is to assume he has AIDS. In fact he has a fully metastasized, untreatable cancer that will soon kill him.

Awards: 2005: Seminci Film Festival: Espiga of Plata, Best Actor (Poupaud)

Critics' reviews

"Curiously, the melodramatic elements of 'Time to Leave' — the moments of emotional display, the surges of music — help to insulate the film from sentimentality."

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"A sincere, heavyweight chamber piece (...) One of the helmer's most straightforward, but perhaps least interesting pics"

Leslie Felperin: Variety
"It's made tastefully and with restraint, Moreau and Bruni-Tedeschi are both touching (...) This may be the first time that Ozon has played it too safe"

Scott Tobias: AV Club
"[Ozon] doesn't have much to say about his subject that's fresh."

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"What could have been poetic is simply maudlin (...) Strangely, it’s by adhering to convention that the film sweetens (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Ed Gonzalez: Slant
"Everything about Romain's story is beautifully performed and beautifully photographed, especially the childhood flashbacks, woven into the narrative. But it is absolutely unconvincing (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"Whilst avoiding many of the sentimental clichés that bedevil terminal illness movies, the briskly edited 'Time To Leave' nevertheless lacks the emotional impact of Ozon's most memorable films (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Tom Dawson: BBC

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