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Francois Ozon's Time to Leave reps one of the helmer's most straightforward, but perhaps least interesting pics.
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What are critics saying?
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It's a magnificent miniature, a supremely tender work that's full of emotion and even sentimentality.
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The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Time to Leave subordinates narrative to mood. Since the end of the story is never in doubt, the only surprises lie in the particulars of Romain’s behavior and the nuances of sorrow, determination and doubt that pass over Mr. Poupaud’s face.
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Time to Leave amounts simply to a semi-thoughtful disease-of-the-week weepie, admirable in its restraint but shying from the terror of the situation.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Moreau's few ripe scenes are choice, and she spices up the joint with her gravelly voice of je ne regrette rien.
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Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
What makes the film intriguing, and somewhat off-putting, is that Romain is deliberately portrayed as a heel; he strains his relations with his lover and his family, except for his grandmother (Moreau), to the breaking point.
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Ozon's disappointing new film Time To Leave is his "The Flower Of My Secret," a Douglas Sirk-inspired weepie about a terminal cancer victim making amends, but it's a little too sentimental and square even by his recent standards.
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Time to Leave just might be Ozon's best work yet. He tackles a sensitive, off-putting subject with a dignity that will put viewers at ease. Poupaud connects as the dying man and Moreau is - Moreau, a French national treasure.