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Suspended Time

What Critics Say

2024

Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot, Nine d’Urso, Nora Hamzawi ...

Drama. Comedy Etienne, a film director, and his brother Paul, a music journalist, are confined together in the house where they grew up. They are joined by Morgane and Carole, their new partners. Every room, every object, the trees in the garden or the paths through the woods take them back to their childhood memories and their ghosts. The world around them is increasingly disturbing, the unreality of confinement and comedy invades their daily ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Rory O'Connor The Film Stage	"The ease with which Assayas switches between his digressions and the central narrative is seamless, and perhaps wouldn’t have been quite so without the endearing, magnetic presence of Macaigne"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"Assayas devotees will take some pleasure in its formal fillips and self-references. Others need not apply"
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A solipsistic slog in a pretty setting (...) The movie's insularity feels trifling and empty"
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"While intriguing as another instalment in the ongoing, free-ranging course of the Assayas canon, never quite gels as a convincing stand-alone piece"
		Adam Solomons IndieWire	"An honest expression of doubt and vulnerability (...) Maybe it's time to stop trying to find cinematic value in pandemic rituals"
		Pat Brown Slant	"A gently smart and warm-spirited look at love as the core term of human existence (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A flimsy but elegant autofictional sketch (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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