Time out (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Time out |
| Original title | L'Emploi du temps |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French , English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 134 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Laurent Cantet |
| script |
Robin Campillo Laurent Cantet |
| production | Caroline Benjo |
| music | Jocelyn Pook |
| camera | Pierre Milon |
| cut |
Robin Campillo Stephanie Leger |
| occupation | |
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Auszeit (original title: L'Emploi du temps ) is a French film drama directed by Laurent Cantet from 2001. The film was released on October 10, 2002 in Germany.
action
Vincent drives his car through a wintry, misty foothills of the Alps in south-east France. Several times a day he calls Muriel, his wife, and tells her about his visits to customers, which however never take place. He sleeps in his car and drifts. It turns out that Vincent was fired from his job as a management consultant but didn't tell his family about it. He invents a new job at the UN in Switzerland , borrows money from his father to buy an apartment and continues to spend his days in the car. But on the weekends he continues to play an ideal world for his family.
Always looking for new sources of money to keep his family's standard of living, he promises friends and acquaintances an investment with high returns. So he collects money from a dozen people, which he also spends on a new car. Jean-Michel, a dealer in counterfeit branded products, observes him doing business in the hotel and offers him to join him. The two men are sympathetic and in his need Vincent agrees. He smuggles the goods across the Swiss border .
Muriel visits Vincent in Geneva . You spend a happy weekend in a hut in the snowy Alps. Muriel slowly becomes suspicious. She learns from a former work colleague of her husband that he was fired months ago. Vincent's existence as a lie grows over his head. He wants to go home. When he gets there, he realizes that something is wrong; his children already know and his father wants to speak to him. Vincent flees, gets into the car and over the phone he overhears his father trying to sort out his money problems and his wife telling him that she loves him. But he doesn't say a word, gets out of the car and disappears in the headlights on a meadow at night.
The film ends with an interview for a new position that Vincent also seems to be getting. His facial expressions suggest that he will not be happy with this job.
Reviews
“Sensitive study of a frightening self-deception that reflects the crisis of the middle class against the background of increasing globalization. The film, staged based on a true story, impresses with the main actor and the balanced interaction of emotional coldness and self-alienation. "
“For 128 minutes, Cantet lets the life of its protagonist go down the drain, slide ever deeper towards catastrophe. It never gets boring. Vincent's lethargy, which Aurélien Recoing expresses with every movement, radiates from every pore, carries the film by itself. In the opening scene, Vincent drives his car next to a high alpine slow train and starts a race that he loses, like so many other things in this film. The train of life, it seems, passes him by - without him on board. Seldom has this been captured more clearly in pictures than here. "
Awards
At the Venice International Film Festival , where the film premiered on September 4, 2001, director Cantet received the Don Quixote Prize. The film was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the Viennale . In addition, Auszeit received a nomination for the European Film Award in the Best Screenplay category . In 2003 the film was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film.
Web links
- Break in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Time out. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Time out ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on filmreporter.de
