Time to Leave2006
Time to Leave (2006)
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Critic 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.
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Movie Info
Cast
as Romain
as Laura
as Jany
as Father
as Mother
as Sasha
as Sophie
as Doctor
as Bruno
as Agent
as Romain as a Child
as Sophie as a Child
as Laurent
as Notary
as Assistant Photographer
as Stylist
as Make-Up Girl
as Mannequin 1
as Mannequin 2
as Woman at Font
as Praying Woman
as Woman on the Train
as Child of the Woman on the Train
as Sophie's Child
as Dealer
as Young Man in the Backroom
as Man in the Backroom
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Critic Reviews for Time to Leave
All Critics (55) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (14) | DVD (2)
Time to Leave strikes a certain register of restrained placidity, yet in the end, succumbs to more and more frequent idealizing interludes.
This is the most personal, deeply felt film from the gifted director of "Under the Sand" and "Swimming Pool." Ozon leaches his melodrama of all sentimentality, and moves us all the more.
It's a quiet and poignant look at a life as it slips away, seen through the eyes of a character who's not always likable but remains entirely real.
It does absolutely nothing that previous movies dealing with this subject haven't done.
Modern audiences are more likely to find the character's behavior to be extremely frustrating, undercutting any sympathetic response one might have for his situation.
The entire film is a balancing trick, with scenes of potential banality redeemed at the last by a subtle twist or subversion. In their conflicted expressions, the performers prove themselves experts at their own high-wire acts.
Audience Reviews for Time to Leave
A perfunctory, soulless drama about a selfish man who finds out that he is terminally ill and becomes completely distasteful, impossible to relate to in any level. Even worse, most of the actors are bad and the end only shows that the director didn't really have anything to say.
Super Reviewer
A very moving French film. There wasn't any hollywood type spin to make it extra dramatic, or extra sad...and because of that, the sincerity of the interactions were much more powerful, in my opinion. Quiet, slow, yet not boring. Touching...
Super Reviewer
Moving french film of life in the face of impending death.
Super Reviewer
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