Suspended Time (2025)
Director: Olivier Assayas Run Time: 105 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Starring: Maud Wyler, Micha Lescot, Nine d'Urso, Nora Hamzawi, Vincent Macaigne
Country: France
Language: French
About the film:
Official Selection, Berlin International Film Festival. As society recedes in the spring of 2020, film director Paul Berger (Vincent Macaigne) returns to his childhood home in the provincial Chevreuse Valley. Still processing the legacy of his parents and feeling out the uncertain shape of the world to come, Paul hunkers down with his documentary filmmaker girlfriend Morgane (Nine d’Urso), his music journalist brother Etienne (Micha Lescot), and Etienne’s new girlfriend Carole (Nora Hamzawi). Squabbling over the minutiae of health protocols and the morality of a hermetic lifestyle mediated by ubiquitous online shopping, the makeshift household finds new ways to lacerate familiar wounds. Yet Paul also finds a surprising refuge in the compulsory quietude of pandemic life, an opportunity to reconnect with the books and art and enchanted forests of his youth. A scabrous French comedy from master filmmaker Olivier Assayas, Suspended Time is a sharply personal and fiercely neurotic ode to the eternal expanse of memory and the allure of life beyond our personal screens.
“A gently smart and warm-spirited look at love as the core term of human existence.” —Slant Magazine
About the filmmaker:
Olivier Assayas is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is best know for his films Demonlover (2002), Something in the Air (2012), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), and Personal Shopper (2016).
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