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Time Out
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by Miramax Home Entertainment
Sales Rank: 7257
Price: $9.99
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The mysterious <I>Time Out</I> is a riveting film, despite (because of?) the fact that hardly anything happening in it corresponds to our notion of movie "action." Vincent (Aurélien Recoing, a top French theater actor but cinematic newcomer) is an out-of-work family man living along the Swiss border. He's never told anyone he's lost his job with a U.N. bureau. He leaves home in the morning--when not working out of his (nonexistent) Geneva apartment--and does things like go to an all-glass office tower and hover as if he belonged. Vincent's excellent at seeming to belong; Recoing's performance is an uncanny symphony of collegial tics, benign watchfulness, and shy, tolerant shrugs. Eventually we gather that Vincent is running a swindle, the ease of which seems to quietly horrify him. However, the most unsettling thing about his fictional work posture is that we come to realize it's scarcely less genuine than, or different from, the shell game that is the real thing. <I>--Richard T. Jameson</I>
Viewer Reviews
Evidently getting fired or laid off in France is more traumatic than in the US, judging by this film in which a man is so freaked that he can't tell his family he's jobless. Instead, he kills time hanging around and eventually sinks to selling counterfeit goods with a semi-crook. In the end, he gets a new white collar job. More than two hours of moody non-action. You're never quite sure what's going on, but actually very little is. I don't understand the great reviews. It also pictures an uglier side of French suburbia I didn't know existed.
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