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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| Marie Rivière | ... |
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>
This film's main theme is such a cliché and so simple: What would you do if you are told that you only have 2-3 months to live? How would you deal with things? Would you fight, and do everything in your power to, perhaps, experience that curing miracle, or would you accept things, as a matter of course... and wait for death to come. This film really makes you think. The main character, marvelously performed by Melvil Poupaud, is not really a sympathetic man, is he? Or is he? Aren't you master of your own life, especially when you have a short time left... He obviously wishes to solve some "personal problems" (relations with people around him which he doesn't find as they should be) in an accelerated, black and white way. To create something clear and defined before dieing... Obviously his life had been a mess. But relations are also about giving and taking, and about accepting imperfect things in relationships. Throughout the movie you get more sympathy with Romain. The telephone call with his sister (whom he had told some unkind things just before) is moving. 'It isn't about you, it's about me". Didn't Fassbinder tell us "Each man kills the thing he loves"... Do you want to protect others by not saying you are going to die... This is altruism in an egoistic way, isn't it? The film is a melodrama, but in my case it made me think... And that's the purpose of a good film, isn't it? All the characters are well typecast and performed. At times the film is even moving, but a tearjerker it never becomes... It's not a new "Love Story". Romain's "Pardon", a sorry softly spoken, with nobody around and never addressed to the person it was meant to, was a moving moment in the film. Also the fact that Romain being gay (and his gay life style) is no theme for the plot in the film, is absolutely refreshing. Homosexuality should just be one of the many facts of life (in the lives of many). (Joris, Amsterdam)