This movie makes one grateful that a serious European art cinema still exists. [15 April 2002, p. 88]
Time Out(L'Emploi du temps)
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France · 2001
Rated PG-13 · 2h 14m
Director Laurent Cantet
Starring Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet, Jean-Pierre Mangeot
Genre Drama
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Middle-aged Vincent is overcome with shame after being fired from the job he’s kept for over 10 years. He can’t bring himself to tell his family he is newly unemployed. Instead, he turns lying into a full-time job — and goes to great lengths to keep the truth hidden…
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Cantet has rich insights into this material, and brings them alive through sensitive acting and powerful filmmaking.
Recoing's meta-performance is an unemphatic marvel, his placid countenance stretched tight over telltale flickers: a quickly suppressed smirk of incredulous delight, a nervous twitch of chagrin, an abrupt pang of guilt.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
A well-crafted indictment of the dark side of the modern work ethic.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Powerful.
Look carefully at that final scene; few happy endings have ever felt so downbeat.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Not just an especially subtle and thoughtful psychological drama, it's a provocative, even an unnerving one as well.
Looks great but moves like molasses, is more interesting than truly involving.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Recoing gives a performance that won't soon be forgotten. Neither will Time Out. It's a great movie.
This is brilliant filmmaking.
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