Film français (2004).
Durée : 1h 25mn.
Date de sortie : Prochainement
Avec Melvil Poupaud, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Jeanne Moreau, Daniel Duval, Marie Rivière...
Réalisé par François Ozon
Romain, un jeune photographe de 30 ans, apprend brutalement qu’il n’a plus que quelques mois à vivre.
(L'avis exprimé par les rédacteurs de cette rubrique est indépendant du travail et des choix du Jury oecuménique.)
17 mai 2005
Francois is becoming a prolific director, a film a year in recent years. And it is impossible to predict what he will come up with next. He has done the musical 8 Women, the psychological crime thriller, Swimming Pool and the disintegration of a marriage, 5x2.
With Time to Leave – more accurately and literally, The Time that Remains – Ozon says he is in process of making a trilogy about death. Sous le Sable was an effectively sombre film about loss and grief and he intends to make a film about the death of a child. In the meantime, this is the final months of a young photographer who has cancer.
Romain is an abrasive man. He clashes fiercely with his motherly sister, alienates his boyfriend, has on again, off again moments with his parents. When he receives the news of his illness, he takes leave from work, stays alone, reflecting. The only person he tells is his empathetic grandmother, a warm performance from Jeanne Moreau. He does take pictures of his sister and children after he reconciles with her on the phone. He does help arrange a job for his boyfriend. Most strangely, he is asked by a kindly woman he meets at a café to father her child since her husband is sterile. He does this, not in any calculating way. Rather, this surrogacy involves him with the human race in a way that he has not up till now. He does have something, someone who will mark his presence in the world.
Ozon is particularly sensitive to the emotions of his characters and the complexities of their relationships. It is true here. He includes an unusual scene in a church where Romain lights a candle and remembers a gross prank with his friend and a dawning of his sexual orientation. This is a film about mortality that affirms life.
