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Time Out

L'emploi du temps

2001

Laurent Cantet

Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet, Jean-Pierre Mangeot ...

7.0

1,236

Drama Recently fired from his job, but unable to confess the truth to his close-knit family, Vincent spends his days driving around the countryside, talking into his cell phone and staring into space. Vincent fabricates a new job for himself so his family and friends will not know that he is out of work. At one point, he even sneaks into an office building. As Vincent roams the building's sterile halls, peeking into meeting rooms where men ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"A gloomy meditation on what many of us mean today when we talk about work. (...) A leisurely film threaded with exquisitely sad chamber music"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Recoing gives a performance that won’t soon be forgotten. Neither will 'Time Out'. It’s a great movie."	POS
United States	David Rooney Variety	"Theater veteran Recoing is utterly compelling. Both the script and the resourceful, subtle actor provide enormous insight into the troubled character"	POS
United States	Patrick Z. McGavin IndieWire	"The first hour is a chilling portrait of social and cultural entrapment (...) Visually, Cantet creates fragments of startling, even sensual, beauty"	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"A subtle, cerebral French psycho-drama (...) [Cantet is] a film-maker who seems to know exactly what he is doing"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"[It derives] extraordinary tension and dread from the inevitable moment when their protagonists' plans fall to pieces"	POS
United Kingdom	Neil Smith BBC	"What makes [Vincent's] story so affecting is the absurd lengths he goes to maintaining this charade (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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