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.
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05/16/06
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
Reviews for Time to Leave
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12/30/06
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01/20/07
An 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
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08/03/06
Top CriticThose looking for the traditional Hollywood sweetness or payoffs will walk away disappointed, but the rough-hewn film offers riches to those willing to endure its downbeat tale of detachment.
11/02/06
We watch Romain change as he struggles with his mortality and, as he does, we come to care about him.
08/17/06
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
But this may be the first time that Ozon has played it too safe, leaving little to separate his film from the countless other portraits of dying scoundrels redeemed.
07/12/06
It does absolutely nothing that previous movies dealing with this subject haven't done.
10/20/06
Has its effective moments of restrained intimacy but lacks the depth to give the slow-going narrative much impact.
08/01/06
It's affecting.
09/07/06
Pointless, crushingly dull "disease of the week" film [about] a shallow, selfish, gay fashion photographer.
07/28/06
Yet another discourse, a creative one, about what people do when they are diagnosed with a terminal disease.
07/12/06
A beautiful, frank and utterly absorbing examination of death.
09/07/06
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12/30/06
Top CriticOzon's drama offers no rousing speeches about living to the fullest, or heartfelt soliloquies on the nature of existence, only a bitterly honest admission that death happens to everyone and there is no use trying to stop it.
07/19/06
Moreau's few ripe scenes are choice, and she spices up the joint with her gravelly voice of je ne regrette rien.
07/12/06
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