[Le Temps qui reste]
2005 - France
Director
Francois Ozon
Starring
Melvil Poupaud, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Jeanne Moreau
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I always figured Ozon would be a filmmaker for me, but perhaps after all there is only that batty, colorful 8 Women which I love in a fangirlish way and otherwise not. There is an economy to both this and 5×2 that I admire in a way, but for a character-driven story he goes too fast to learn about, let alone care about, the people in it. It’s not a quiet, contemplative meditation on death — saying little and showing less can be effective — but rather a surface-oriented and contrived thing, that succeeds in eliciting an emotional response only in the most facile ways (a character cries out in pain and beats his head against the wall, for example). Then there’s this tacked on sideplot about helping a sterile couple, which would always have been obvious but could have made a touching life/death counterpoint, which in front of Ozon’s camera devolves into a sexy threesome romp. A very disappointing effort.
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