Time to Leave(Le temps qui reste)

Name: Time to Leave
Genre: Drama

France · 2005
1h 18m
Director François Ozon
Starring Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Daniel Duval
Genre Drama

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?

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Francois Ozon's Time to Leave reps one of the helmer's most straightforward, but perhaps least interesting pics.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

It's a magnificent miniature, a supremely tender work that's full of emotion and even sentimentality.

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.

Village Voice by Dennis Lim

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.

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.

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.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

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.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

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.