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Changing Times (Les Temps Qui Changent) (2004)

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 15

A restless mix of cultural and emotional turmoil provides the backdrop for this exhilarating and uncomfortable story about the consistancy of long lost love.

Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 6

A restless mix of cultural and emotional turmoil provides the backdrop for this exhilarating and uncomfortable story about the consistancy of long lost love.

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A worldly construction supervisor travels to Tangier to ensure that a complicated job is completed by the projected date, only to find the torch he carries for a long-lost love rekindled with melancholy passion in director Andre Techine's pensive romantic drama. It's been thirty-years since Antoine (Gerard Depardieu) and Ceclile (Catherine Denuve) called it quits, but time has only seemed to amplify Antoine's longings for the woman that stole his heart so many years ago. Though Antoine has never

Unrated, 1 hr. 36 min.

Drama, Romance, Art House & International

Directed By: Andre Techine

Written By: Andre Techine, Laurent Guyot, Andrucha Waddington

In Theaters: Dec 8, 2004 Limited

On DVD: Oct 3, 2006

Box Office:$0.2M

Koch Lorber Films

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Critic Reviews for Changing Times (Les Temps Qui Changent)

All Critics (43) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (15) | DVD (2)

French director Andre Techine sketches a family with the usual flaws, but takes the unusual step of not fixing them.

August 13, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Bill Stamets

Chicago Sun-Times

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Volatile and sometimes daring performances by Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Gilbert Melki, Malik Zidi, and Lubna Azabal (as twins) contribute to the highly charged and novelistic experience.

August 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

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... another gorgeous and immensely satisfying reminder that there are few better directors than Techine when it comes to capturing the vagaries of the heart.

August 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Boston Globe

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Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

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If Changing Times' last shots don't touch you, your heart may be frozen.

August 10, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

... more drily sociological than dramatic.

August 4, 2006 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Despite its weaknesses, Changing Times (Les Temps Qui Changent in French) is always watchable and even poignant from time to time.

August 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

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Here, the times are changing and so is the plot. In fact, you can expect a mood swing every five minutes, in a story so muddled even the strong cast, including Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, can't save it.

June 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Eye for Film

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

This poignant, flashback flick, is worthwhile for the opportunity to see a couple of seasoned pros, its very well-acquainted leads, Oscar-nominees Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, opposite each other again, for the seventh time in their careers.

July 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Upstage Magazine

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Kam Williams

Upstage Magazine

All but devoted cineastes will be disappointed.

February 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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Rex Roberts

Film Journal International

Clash of characters in love set against a clash of civilizations.

February 1, 2007 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews

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Louis Proyect

rec.arts.movies.reviews

Techine would have been better off ditching the supporting characters altogether and focusing on the relationship between Antoine and Cecile.

December 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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Jeff Vice

Deseret News, Salt Lake City

[Techine's] observations of culture clashes... are thought-provoking but - like most of the movie - keep the audience emotionally separated from the characters' hearts.

December 1, 2006 Comment

Sean Means

Salt Lake Tribune

A spare but rich film from French master technician Andr� (C) T� (C)chin� (C).

October 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Michele Kenner

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

[a] strangely moving love story

September 2, 2006 Full Review Source: Cinema Writer

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Jay Antani

Cinema Writer

Techine is so intrigued by the dramatic differences between the sisters that you might not even notice they are the same actress.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

St. Paul Pioneer Press

T�chin�...is back in form with this engrossing tale of the inconvenient passions that bubble beneath the surface among people who have accepted bourgeois compromise.

August 10, 2006 Comment

Andy Klein

Los Angeles CityBeat Source: Los Angeles CityBeat

Frenchman Techine proves again that he's a master of crafting seemingly ordinary events into a unique and exilarating world, and he's greatly helped by his superlative actors, Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve (in her fourth film with him).

August 5, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

This willfully slippery movie seems to make the case both for mixing it up and sticking to your own kind. Which is all of a piece with the sensibility of this wonderfully ambiguous filmmaker, a visionary of our changing times.

August 3, 2006 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly

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Ella Taylor

L.A. Weekly

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"Changing Times" starts with Antoine(Gerard Depardieu) arriving in Tangiers to oversee the building of a broadcast facility of a moderate Muslim satellite network. He is also in town to see his old flame, Cecile(Catherine Deneuve), who he has not seen in more than thirty years and still pines for. Cecile who works as

July 15, 2010

Walter M.

Super Reviewer

A moderately poignant patchwork.

December 31, 2006

William Goss

Super Reviewer

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