Time to Leave
Synopsis
Romain is thirty years old.
He discovers that he has an incurable illness and only has a few months to live...
He makes use of the time that's left to reconnect with his family and friends, and to become a better person.
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- Executive Producer : Fidélité Films
- Co-production : France 2 Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Mars Distribution
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producers : Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier
- Screenwriter : François Ozon
- Director of photography : Jeanne Lapoirie
- Assistant director : Véronique Labrid
- Editor : Monica Coleman
- Sound recordists : Brigitte Taillandier, Aymeric Devoldère, Éric Ferret
- Costume designer : Pascaline Chavanne
- Assistant Operators : Benoît Rizzotti, Mathieu Giombini
- Camera Operator : Mathias Raaflaub
- Production manager : Christine De Jekel
- Press Attaché (film) : André-Paul Ricci
- Sound editors : Gwennolé Le Borgne, Aymeric Devoldère
- Assistant Editor : Frédéric Barbe
- Continuity supervisor : Agathe Grau
- Production Designer : Katia Wyszkop
- Casting : Antoinette Boulat
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Pierre Laforce
- Still Photographer : Jean-Claude Moireau
- Foreign distributor : Yuen Ping Low
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Illness, Death
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
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Time To Leave by François Ozon (Le Temps qui reste, France, 2005, 90 min.). The director of some of the most engaging French tales of the last 10 years, François Ozon (Swimming Pool, Under the Sand, and Eight Women) turns to a somber look at the final days of a young, gay man’s life. Romain (Melvil Poupaud) is a good-looking fashion photographer with seemingly everything to live for, but his life suddenly changes when he collapses during a shoot. Faced with an untreatable cancer diagnosis, he decides to tell no one except his grandmother (Jeanne Moreau in a remarkable performance). As Romain bears the weight of his knowledge alone, we see him struggle through anger and denial to reach an acceptance of sorts. Romain is never sanctified or made heroic, and the reconciliations he makes are with himself rather than with others. Time to Leave is an intimate, moving work in which Poupaud excels in the demanding central role. Also starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. Description adapted from the London Film Festival's catalogue.
