SUSPENDED TIME / HORS DU TEMPS (France)
June 28 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
As society recedes in the spring of 2020, film director Paul Berger (Vincent Macaigne) returns to his childhood home in the provincial Chevreuse Valley. Still processing the legacy of his parents and feeling out the uncertain shape of the world to come, Paul hunkers down with his documentary filmmaker girlfriend Carole (Nora Hamzawi), his music journalist brother Etienne (Micha Lescot), and Etienne’s new girlfriend Morgan (Nine d’Urso). Squabbling over the minutiae of health protocols and the morality of a hermetic lifestyle mediated by ubiquitous online shopping, the makeshift household finds new ways to lacerate familiar wounds. Yet Paul also finds a surprising refuge in the compulsory quietude of pandemic life, an opportunity to reconnect with the books and art and enchanted forests of his youth. A scabrous French comedy from master filmmaker Olivier Assayas, Suspended Time is a sharply personal and fiercely neurotic ode to the eternal expanse of memory and the allure of life beyond our personal screens.
Official Selection: Berlin International Film Festival 2024
“A gently smart and warm-spirited look at love as the core term of human existence.” … Pat Brown
Slant Magazine:
“The conversations are made to feel realistic thanks to Olivier Assayas’ eloquent writing, it’s without a doubt the best film made about the pandemic to date.” … Ben Rolph
AwardsWatch:
“A poetic memoir, a brittle family-tension comedy, a game playing on the twin registers of storytelling and autobiography, in the tradition of that French literary genre called ‘autofiction.'” … Jonathan Romney, Screen International:
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Run Time: 110 min
Country: France
Language: French w/English subtitles
Premiere: Palm Springs
Director: Olivier Assayas
Writer: Olivier Assayas (screenwriter)
Producers: Olivier Assayas | Olivier Delbosc
Cinematographer: Eric Gautier
Editor: Marion Monnier
Casting Director: Antoinette Boulat
Production Designer: François-Renaud Labarthe
Principal Cast: Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot, Nine d’Urso, Nora Hamzawi
Distributor: Music Box
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1qzjSRTrquo
