Time Out ( L'Emploi du temps )

Time Out (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'Emploi du temps
Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards
Montreal World Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
133 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Laurent Cantet

Written By:
Robin Campillo
Laurent Cantet

Actors:
Aurélien Recoing ..... Vincent
Karin Viard ..... Muriel
Serge Livrozet ..... Jean-Michel
Jean-Pierre Mangeot ..... Father
Monique Mangeot ..... Mother
Nicolas Kalsch ..... Julien
Marie Cantet ..... Alice
Félix Cantet ..... Félix
Olivier Lejoubioux ..... Stan
Maxime Sassier ..... Nono
Elisabeth Joinet ..... Jeanne
Nigel Palmer ..... Jaffrey
Christophe Charles ..... Fred
Didier Perez ..... Philippe
Philippe Jouannet ..... Human resources director

Synopsis:

French director Laurent Cantet's sophomore effort is a somber and complex meditation on work -- specifically, how work has become the defining feature of the contemporary individual as well as the quintessential symbol of quotidian despair. The movie tells the story of Vincent (Aurelien Recoing), a middle-class family man recently fired from his drab, middle-management job. Unable to tell his family about his firing, Vincent spends his workdays driving around the French countryside --"business trips" he tells his wife -- keeping intact the reassuring routine of going to work and coming home to his wife and kids. As his family grows suspicious of his evasive behavior, Vincent is forced to spin a new tale, pretending to get a job working for the U.N. In a bid to keep the money coming in, he recruits old friends to invest in an imaginary emerging-markets investment scheme. Vincent also falls in with Jean-Michel (Serge Livrozet), a black market dealer whose ignominious past serves as an ominous warning for Vincent's present course. Despite his efforts to maintain an undisturbed surface, Vincent's wife begins to suspect something amiss. As the lies pile up and the questions from his family mount, Vincent loses control of his fragile double life, leading to a poignant conclusion. Cantet's film premiered at the 2001 Venice Film Festival.

Recently fired from his job, but unable to confess the truth to his close-knit family, Vincent spends his days driving around the countryside, talking into his cell phone and staring into space. Vincent fabricates a new job for himself so his family and friends will not know that he is out of work. At one point, he even sneaks into an office building. As Vincent roams the building's sterile halls, peeking into meeting rooms where men are busy at work, we see a man who yearns not just for a new job, but also for a place in the world. While this pantomime of work initially registers as sad and even a little pathetic, it slowly and unnervingly becomes terrifying.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 16 December, 2005.

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