Francois Ozon's unlikeable-fashion-fotog-dying-of-cancer film "Time to Leave"

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...starring the Loveliest Frenchman, the dark and lithe Melvil Poupaud, as a vain prick who drives nearly everyone in his life away after getting his diagnosis and rejecting chemotherapy. The lead performance (and Jeanne Moreau's cameo as his sensualist grandmother) is impressive, but there are a few narrative hooks that are amazingly contrived (the main one may not pass the giggle test) -- best to assume the last 20 minutes are meant to be abstract, but I can't quite convince myself. Still, it's refreshing to see a character in a terminal situation portrayed as selfish, unlikeable ... human.

(Also, the three principle sex scenes, quite different in tone and choreography, are among the most convincing I've seen in a long while.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

intrigued! is it out in NY already?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, has been for about 3 weeks. Doesn't seem to be doing particularly well at the b.o. (the Francophiles have less grim stuff like the new Techine to flock to).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

but the one good thing (cinematically) about living in montreal is we're supposed to get the french films first!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

maybe this one went to the gay meccas first (so, still).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

hello we have the OUTGAMES.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

yawwwwwnnn, gimme the games in a club dungeon (on view in Time to Leave).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

has anyone seen his latest "le refuge"? has a (brief) appearance from melvil poupaud, doc

― swagula (Lamp), Friday, 10 September 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

Yes, I liked Le Refuge, titled Hideaway in the US. Better than the new silly Potiche, tho Deneuve wears awful clothes with gumption:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/hideaway/4994

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/potiche/5354

― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 March 2011 14:39 (fourteen years ago)

I have the new one in my queue -- the fantasy one.

― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:45 (fourteen years ago)

very much enjoyed le refuge.

― quantum telescope (+ +), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

haha i really liked 'potiche' but it is p silly

― nu rave electro banger coked out art school college party (Lamp), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

so how's Ricky?

― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 14:03 (fourteen years ago)

a mixed bag, but I laughed a lot at the effects in the middle.

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 16:46 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

hideaway was good, thought the end was a bit too dramatic tho

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 11 June 2011 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

1 of his short films, see the sea is on netflix streaming & worth checking out imo

― johnny crunch, Monday, 4 July 2011 02:01 (fourteen years ago)

I'd like to second the above statement as much as possible.

― My Boyfriend Could Be A Spanish Man (R Baez), Monday, 4 July 2011 02:09 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I was NOT expecting to enjoy Potiche so much. Watching Deneuve and Depardier reminded me what I love about star turns.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 July 2011 19:04 (fourteen years ago)

they had a couple cute moments, but ugh overall. Gerard, count the calories.

― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 July 2011 19:06 (fourteen years ago)

i also enjoyed potiche much more than i thought i wld - the film beautifully captures the feel of 70s popular european cinema, and the guy playing the husband is superb.

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 22 July 2011 20:06 (fourteen years ago)

they had a couple cute moments, but ugh overall. Gerard, count the calories.

And here I thought you didn't discriminate against the obese.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 July 2011 20:07 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

anyone seen the new Hitchcocky one?

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:42 (twelve years ago)

not really Hitchcocky, but yes

Never Coming to a Theater Near You: Arthouse Cinema 2013

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:52 (twelve years ago)

yeah, I liked it a lot! lots of meta shenanigans tho so it depends on your tolerance for that. There even seemed to be a kind of nod to the latter novels of john barth - not just author-character interaction but also cutting away to a bourgeois couple commenting on the text. Lot of fun literary gags in there too.

― la mord de l'auteur (wins), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:56 (twelve years ago)

sounds closer to Chabrol

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:56 (twelve years ago)

last shot pretty hitchcocky! xp

― la mord de l'auteur (wins), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:56 (twelve years ago)

Alfred might like this one for the lit/academic themes and model-beautiful teen antihero.

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:58 (twelve years ago)

it's a light movie really I think. Lots of good throwaway gags. <3 kristin scott-thomas. haven't seen an ozon since swimming pool whick I also liked

― la mord de l'auteur (wins), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:58 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

anyone seen Young and Beautiful?

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:40 (eleven years ago)

yeah, its not as good as the lana del rey song, but its ok, id prob be fine if rampling got a best supporting oscar nom for the 4 or w/e mins shes in it @ the end

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:52 (eleven years ago)

Yup. Blogged about it. (third from the top) It isn't really my thing, but I liked how it depicted everybody else's horror and mistrust at the young girl, after they begin perceiving her as a whore. It's more insightful about the fears and desires of the supporting characters than it is about 17-year old girls, I suspect.

― Frederik B, Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:53 (eleven years ago)

it def does get marginally more interesting in her resultant age-appropriate relationship & its conclusion. it feels like a few chapters of a longer novel or something, which i guess is admirable

― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:52 (eleven years ago)

Okay is right. I thought Rampling added more pathos than was needed, actuallly.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 May 2014 18:15 (eleven years ago)

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