The Time That Remains (2005)
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| German title | The time that remains | ||
| Original title | Le Temps qui reste | ||
| Country of production | France | ||
| original language | French | ||
| Publishing year | 2005 | ||
| length | 81 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | François Ozon | ||
| script | François Ozon | ||
| production | Olivier Delbosc Marc Missonnier |
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| music | various | ||
| camera | Jeanne Lapoirie | ||
| cut | Monica Coleman | ||
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The time that remains is the eighth film by François Ozon and is described by him - after Unter dem Sand - as the second part of a trilogy about grief .
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In-demand homosexual fashion photographer Romain was 30 years old when he found out he had cancer and that chemotherapy or radiation were less than five percent likely to be cured . He refrains from any therapy and only lets his grandmother know about his suffering. He prepares for imminent death by withdrawing into self-chosen solitude: he no longer works, separates from his friend, visits the places of a happily spent childhood one last time - and helps a chance acquaintance to have a child at their request, which he appoints as his rightful heir.
Reviews
On April 19, 2006, the Süddeutsche Zeitung particularly praised the camera work and leading actors at the German theatrical release: “The face of Melvil Poupaud in the first half of the film is incredibly beautiful, filmed by Jeanne Lapoirie, with whom Ozon works for the fourth time. Poupaud had to train his body for three months before the film. Then, while filming, ozone let him go to pieces, physically and mentally, let him eat his meals alone. "
On April 19, 2006, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described the productions of Ozon as “films of an amazing simplicity” and explained the cautious reception of the film in France: “The French film critics do not love François Ozone's films. Probably too academic and too direct for them. Because although his stories are never really told conventionally, the way in which he borrows from film history is comparatively uncomplicated, you could also say: just lovingly. "
On the German arte website, on the occasion of the screening at the Cannes Film Festival 2005, one had to admire ozone for the way he always finds the right pictures without any intellectual fear of sentimentality: “One will probably become Le temps qui reste as ozone so far most personal and most intimate film. That's not wrong either, but at the same time it's the most universal story he has told so far: the longing for the childhood paradise from which we were all driven. It just seems as if the individual disasters always have to happen before we are ready to remember them. "
On WDR 5 , the film was praised as “moving and yet completely unsentimental”: “ The time that remains is a masterful study of dying and the rest of the life before it. Nobody knows the time that remains. But, according to the director, you should always deal with the rest of life, which is ultimately our everyday life, in such a way that you have no regrets at the moment of death. This film is truly philosophical, entertaining, not melancholy, but painful in a beneficial way. "
artechock.de wrote in a preview: “ Le temps qui reste is a serious intimate play, a reflection on the ancient motif of learning to die . It is not a film about the death and he is not about fear. It's about a young person's confrontation with his own death, which must always remain absurd. Because this confrontation, as the film shows, is actually one with life, with relationships, with the world, with which no peace is possible, only a truce. "
On April 19, 2006, the Berlin taz gave a more critical verdict: “The contribution to the gene pool gives meaning to a hedonistically flawed life: François Ozone's feature film Die Zeit, which remains is heavy ideological kitsch. Nicely, of all things, sex saves the melodrama from falling into the abyss. (...) You actually watch a real rousing co-production of differently motivated lovers, whose bodies deliberately devour themselves in lust, love and other motives and at the same time remain clumsy and clumsy, unprotected and touching and then sexy again. In these pictures, a postfamily utopia is actually visible for a short time, even if Ozon at the same time keeps the interpretation open that only a rich, terminally ill gay man is being exploited by a hetero couple who also secures a nice inheritance for their unborn child. (…) The scene doesn't last long, but it not only reconciles with the exposition, it also makes the solution of Romain's problems appear in a more bearable light. "
Awards
The film won an award from the Festival Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid in two categories (including Melvil Poupaud for Best Actor ) and was nominated for this award in a third category.
Web links
- Time to Leave in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The time remains in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The time that remains . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 290 K).