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12/30/06
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:Jul 14, 2006 Limited
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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Reviews for Time to Leave
A short and succinct film but it lingers long in the memory.
09/26/05
Directed by the prolific François Ozon, Time to Leave stars Melvil Poupaud as a fashion photographer facing the certainty that his life will soon be over.
07/13/06
Top CriticIt's noteworthy for the performances of Melvil Poupard as Romaine and Jeanne Moreau as the grandmother-two people facing their own mortality, and trying to exit this world with grace and dignity.
03/26/08
Director Francois Ozon, who can define physical desire in a swift gesture or extend a moment of self-reflection with acute stillness, has become more confident and specific with each film.
11/02/06
A thoroughly cinematic and honest film that thrives on in-between moments and knows how to make them grand.
01/07/06
As with all Ozon’s work, Time to Leave resounds with grace notes.
07/10/06
Top CriticTime To Leave takes the time to reflect... it is among the least tricky of Ozon's films, which also makes it one of the best.
07/11/06
takes one of the most tired movie cliches of all time -- "I'm sorry, but you only have a few months to live." -- and turns into to a totally fresh look at what it truly means to live
12/01/06
We watch Romain change as he struggles with his mortality and, as he does, we come to care about him.
08/17/06
Top CriticTime to Leave blows a fresh, skeptical wind through fairly corny melodramatic territory while keeping faith with the operatic emotions of the genre.
07/20/06
Ozon'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
Una exploración muy personal, muy íntima y para nada condescendiente sobre la proximidad de la muerte a edad temprana. Muy buen elenco.
05/29/07
A lyrical and heart-affecting French drama that reveals that we must each encounter death on our own terms.
07/13/06
Time to Leave comes across with unexpected moments of illuminated stillness, and any movie that gives meaningful face time to the incomparable [Jeanne] Moreau can never be a total waste of time.
07/13/06
Top CriticYet another discourse, a creative one, about what people do when they are diagnosed with a terminal disease.
07/12/06
maintains its focus and disturbs appropriately
07/26/06
Another year, another minimal but solid offering from François Ozon
09/26/05
Ozon transplants the melodrama genre to the here and now, taking a sentimental form and adding frank sexuality (is that a prosthetic Mr. Poupard or are you in the moment?) and a steely attitude.
07/14/06
The story arc from his diagnosis to his death doesn't cover much ground in Romain's life. But his emotional landscape -- the conflicts, the anger, the sadness, the acceptance -- offers much more depth.
10/12/06
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