Time to Leave
(2005)
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Time to Leave
(2005)
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| Jeanne Moreau | ... |
Laura
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| Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | ... |
Jany
(as Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi)
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Daniel Duval | ... |
Le père
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La mère
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Christian Sengewald | ... |
Sasha
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Louise-Anne Hippeau | ... |
Sophie
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Henri de Lorme | ... |
Le médecin
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Walter Pagano | ... |
Bruno
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Violetta Sanchez | ... |
L'agent
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Ugo Soussan Trabelsi | ... | |
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Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi | ... |
Sophie enfant
(as Alba Gaïa Kradhege Bellugi)
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Victor Poulouin | ... |
Laurent
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Laurence Ragon | ... |
La notaire
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Thomas Gizolme | ... |
L'assistant photographe
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Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: treatment? work? how to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing death, he pushes people away - what's the point? He visits his grandmother to tell her; on the way, he chats briefly with a waitress. He looks at old photos, visits a childhood tree house. He takes pictures. Returning from his grandmother's, he stops for food and sees the waitress, Jany, again. She makes a request. He returns to an empty flat - his lover has left. Can Jany's proposition give him a way to move past self-pity? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
The first thing that strikes me as very unusual about this movie is that the main character is gay, and that that is not the subject of the movie, not even an issue. I don't know of any other movie like that.
Having said this, let's leave the subject of homosexuality, just like the film does, and not scare heterosexuals away. Of course the subject of the movie, saying goodbye to life, isn't new, neither original. But sometimes it isn't the story itself, but the way it is told that makes it worthwhile. To my opinion Ozon is very good storyteller. I think tenderness, and the love for people and for life itself must have inspired him a lot.
Some scene's could be seen as provocative and politically incorrect, but the way they are woven into the story makes them credible and the way they are filmed makes them just beautiful. Ozon has a way of filming sex scene's as what they are; a nice part of everyday life.
The movie left me moved, but not sad.