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Time Out (2001)
"L'emploi du temps" (original title)

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An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.

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Vincent
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Muriel
Serge Livrozet ...
Jean-Michel
Jean-Pierre Mangeot ...
Father
Monique Mangeot ...
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Nicolas Kalsch ...
Julien
Marie Cantet ...
Alice
Félix Cantet ...
Félix
Olivier Lejoubioux ...
Stan
Maxime Sassier ...
Nono
Elisabeth Joinet ...
Jeanne
Nigel Palmer ...
Jaffrey
Christophe Charles ...
Fred
Didier Perez ...
Philippe
Philippe Jouannet ...
Human resources director
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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 are busy at work, we see a man who yearns not just for a new job, but also for a place in the world. While this pantomime of work initially registers as sad and even a little pathetic, it slowly and unnervingly becomes terrifying. Written by Sujit R. Varma

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Now he must decide between his life of lies...or the truth.

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Rated PG-13 for sensuality | See all certifications »
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14 November 2001 (France)  »

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$19,978 (USA) (5 April 2002)

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$448,375 (USA) (23 August 2002)
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Inspired by a true story, that of Jean-Claude Romand. In reality, Romand went on to kill, on January 9, 1993, his wife, two children and both his parents. See more »

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Version of La vida de nadie (2002) See more »

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highly recommended mood movie
24 August 2004 | by (Seattle, WA ~ USA) – See all my reviews

When Vincent--a tall, quiet, morose middle-aged man--is fired from his job, he finds himself unexpectedly cut loose from society and set adrift from life as he knows it. Instead of looking for a job, he casually cons some family and friends out of substantial chunks of money in order to support his wife and three children while he spends week after week driving through the European countryside in winter. A subdued but inescapable tension builds for the audience as we continually fail to understand what motivates Vincent to risk so much, and this tension becomes only more profound when we realize that Vincent himself does not understand his actions. "Time Out" is a hypnotically sad story told at a measured, melancholy pace with a haunting musical score that circumscribes Vincent's strange, incomprehensible mystery.


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