Time to Leave Reviews
What a f* obscene movie and protagonist. And I'm not talking about the sex scene, but his way of pushing obvious boundaries of manner. Not only that, but the main character is a total selfish douche.
It deeply touched and me I related fully with this movie. Any movie that makes you think tend to be my favorites. This movie had tough decisions.
mortality ain't exactly a cheery subject to end the night with. i like ozon but didn't quite like this one; bleak subject matters usually make hard-to-like films, i much prefer the wicked and fun ozons.
This may lack originality & it has a few ridiculous moments here & there but in my opinion this is how this kind of movies should be, It doesn't feel forced & also successfully avoid cheap sentimentalism & on the other hand it's not one of those vacuous dull films for the sake of forced realism or being artsy
Nothing spectacularly tear jerking or overly cliched (which I welcome), just a simple story about one man accepting his death.
I'm having a hard time with Time to Leave. On one hand, it isn't something American filmmakers would ever make. Not because of the subject matter, but because of the way the story goes about unfolding. (A grown man crawls into bed with his naked grandmother, he neglects to tell almost everyone in his life he's dying, etc.) On the other, it misses so many of the connecting moments, the transformation of the main character doesn't amount to a whole lot. Romain is vile to his sister and her children and his live-in boyfriend. He asks his father drop him off to buy cocaine (and then says it helps him get up, yet can't tell his father he's dying). He doesn't disclose his cancer status to a couple he has sex with. Nothing he does is for anyone else in the film except himself. Sure, he's dying and feels like he has no support, yet Romain never gives the people around him any chance to support him. Frustrating and mind-bogglingly shallow, Time to Leave should and could have been so much more.
Personally I found this movie to be depressing. Romain chose to die in isolation despite having people that love him and would of been there for him. But that was his way of lessening their pain and his own, although some would say he was just outright selfish and to some extent he was. Ultimately though, it is his life and he alone has the right to choose how he wishes to die. That matter aside, the show strictly focused on Romain's last few weeks. It would have been beneficial if we saw a bit more of Romain's past like why he and his sister became so distant and the reaction of everyone after his death. The show was short so there was room to add more content. Overall though the movie was a good depiction of mortality. I find this quote fitting to conclude my review for this film. "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
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...
Mientras evade las salidas más fáciles y frecuentadas por otras películas similares (la desesperación, el anhelo por vivir todo lo posible, el desapego absoluto, etc) la cinta propone una mirada pasiva y contenida de la proximidad de la muerte, lo cual es al a vez su acierto y su punto débil: los hechos son conmovedores y llevan a un contacto emocional con el personaje, pero son contados siempre como si se quisiera minimizar el impacto, tal vez para huir de los clichés que ya de por sí se habían sorteado adecuadamente. Con todo, una buena cinta para ver y pensar en ese eterno tema de la muerte. A ver más cine de Ozon, con este buen inicio.
I really like how the director set the plot.But I think it is kinda short.And I like Melvil Poupaud's performence in the movie. Though the point of the movie is about how to face the difficulty,however,I think the part of family is also important.
This movie is shocking and make you understand that you have to take all the little pleasure of life and don't lose time, because life is short and even shorter when you're sick, It's in those moments that you realize how important and precious life is
" Time is free, but it's priceless. You can'town it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.â? - Harvey MacKay" I just recenty watched "One Week", the Canadian movie on how a young man deals with the news of terminal cancer. "Le Temps Qui Reste" also deals with this same theme, a french young man diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, and how they deal with the news of their imminent demise. While some may find the arrangement with the couple in the coffee shop or the level of intimacy with his grandmother a little bit unreal, I thought the director dealt with this sensitive subject with finese and without undue force, which I liked. A known metaphor was the method of closing the movie. In both movies, the viewer too will be drawn in to do some soul searching - what would you do faced with similar news?