Time Out (2001 film)

• Aurélien Recoing: Vincent
• Karin Viard: Muriel, Vincent's wife
• Serge Livrozet: Jean -Michel
• Jean -Pierre Mangeot: the father of Vincent
• Monique Mangeot: the mother of Vincent
• Nicolas Kalsch: Julien
• Marie Cantet Alice
• Félix Cantet Félix
• Olivier Lejoubioux: Stan
• Maxime Sassier: Nono
• Elisabeth Joinet: Jeanne

Time out ( original title: L' Emploi du temps ) is a French film by Laurent Cantet drama from 2001 In Germany the film came on 10 October 2002 in the cinemas..

Action

Vincent driving his car through a wintry, foggy foothills of the Alps in southeastern France. Several times a day he phoned Muriel, his wife and told her about his visits to customers, but never take place. He sleeps in his car and can drive. It turns out that Vincent was fired from his job as a management consultant, but his family has said nothing about it. He invents a new job at the UN in Switzerland, borrows from his father money to buy an apartment and spends his days on the car. But on the weekends, he continued to play his family from an ideal world.

On the search for new sources of money to maintain the standard of living of his family, he promises to friends and acquaintances an investment with high returns. So he gathers a dozen people a money he spends for a new car. Jean- Michel, a seller of fake brand products observed him in his shops in the hotel and offers him to join with him. The two men are sympathetic and in his need to be on a Vincent. He smuggles goods across the Swiss border.

Muriel visited Vincent in Geneva. They spend a happy weekend at a cabin in the snowy Alps. Slowly Muriel becomes suspicious. From a former colleague of her husband she learns that this was canceled months ago. Vincent eventually grows his lies existence over the head. He wants to go home. When he gets there, he realizes that something is wrong; his children even know about it and his father would speak to him. Vincent flees, gets into his car and listens on the phone his father, who wants to manage his money problems, and his wife, who tells him that she loves him. But he does not speak a word, gets out of the car and disappears in the spotlight on a night meadow.

The film ends with an interview for a new job, which seems to also get Vincent. His facial expression clearly suggests that he will not be happy with this job.

Reviews

" Sensitive study of a fearsome self-deception that reflects the crisis of the middle class against the backdrop of increasing globalization. Directed by a true story film offers the protagonist and the balanced interaction of emotional coldness and self-alienation. "

" 128 minutes long can Cantet the life of his protagonists to go downhill, deeper slide against the disaster. Boring is never. Vincent lethargy that Aurélien Recoing expresses with every movement radiates from every pore, carries the movie all by itself. In the initial scene Vincent drive a car beside a high alpine tourist train and begins a race that he, like so much else in this film, you lose. The train of life, it seems, goes past him - without him on board. Rarely has been clarified in pictures than here. "

Awards

At the International Film Festival of Venice, where the film on 4 September 2001 celebrated its premiere, director Cantet won the Don Quixote Prize. When Viennale the film with the FIPRESCI Prize was awarded. In addition, out received a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Screenplay. 2003, the film was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Language Film.