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08/03/06
Time to Leave (2006)
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Reviews Counted:50
Fresh:38
Rotten:12
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: A reflective look at our own mortality through the experience of a middle-aged French man, Time To Leave manages to pull at our heart strings without resorting to cliches, and leaves a lasting impression.
Theatrical Release:12-05-2006
Synopsis: Melvil Poupaud gives an extraordinary, complex performance in TIME TO LEAVE (LE TEMPS QUI RESTE), written and directed by iconoclastic French auteur François Ozon (8 WOMEN, SWIMMING POOL). Poupaud... [More]
Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Daniel Duval
Director: Francois Ozon
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12/30/06
Top CriticAn emotionally moving story, which somehow never dips into cliched sentimentality.
07/12/06
The entire film is a balancing trick, with scenes of potential banality redeemed at the last by a subtle twist or subversion. In their conflicted expressions, the performers prove themselves experts at their own high-wire acts.
09/28/06
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.
05/16/06
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11/11/06
...surprisingly unengaging [and] utterly devoid of humor.
07/20/06
Time to Leave winds up a tiresome affirmation of man's biological duty to procreate; the position is simplistic verging on obnoxious, especially after 5x2's attack on the hetero family model.
07/11/06
François Ozon's latest follows in the footsteps of familiar made-for-TV-movie terrain but does so wearing Prada shoes.
05/01/06
Romain sees his inner child wherever he goes. The problem is, that childishness is all we really understand about the character. Nothing else punches through.
07/21/06
Pointless, crushingly dull "disease of the week" film [about] a shallow, selfish, gay fashion photographer.
07/28/06
It's about a gay man coming to terms with his mortality, and, in a plot twist that's as contrived as it is ironic, with the biblical injunction to procreate.
07/21/06
One gets the feeling while watching Time to Leave that the feisty director is, for the first time, bored by the story he's telling.
03/01/07
It's difficult to feel positive about Romain's acceptance of his mortality, because Ozon hasn't convinced us Romain was that alive to begin with.
12/16/06
Has its effective moments of restrained intimacy but lacks the depth to give the slow-going narrative much impact.
08/01/06
Modern audiences are more likely to find the character's behavior to be extremely frustrating, undercutting any sympathetic response one might have for his situation.
09/30/06
It does absolutely nothing that previous movies dealing with this subject haven't done.
10/20/06
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