Time Out, which won the Lion of the Year at Venice in 2000, is a midlife crisis film with ... more
a difference. Vincent is an out-of-work consultant who fabricates an increasingly complex and unsustainable business life to give his wife and children a secure e...
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Time Out, which won the Lion of the Year at Venice in 2000, is a midlife crisis film with ... more
a difference. Vincent is an out-of-work consultant who fabricates an increasingly complex and unsustainable business life to give his wife and children a secure e...
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Vincent (Recoing) seems to contentedly spends weeks on the road, busy with business trips ... more
and meetings. He shares vague details with his loving wife, Muriel (Viard) and their three children. But Vincent's professional life is fiction. Unable to bear te...
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Ang Lee - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy
Britney Jean Spears is an extremely successful American popstar. She first entered the pop charts in Summer 1998 with her debut hit , Baby One More Time. Since then Britney has sold over 83 million records world wide , been married twice , divorced twice , and has two children with her second husband Kevin Ferderline , yet she is still only twenty six. Britney has had a very successful career , earning her over £50 Million!
TimeOut With Britney is a DVD which focuses on the life of Britney Spears. The DVD was released in the United States in 1998. Britney talks about her childhood , her claim to fame and life as a popstar.
At the time of release Britney was fairly 'new' , so at the time of release it was good to see where Britney had come from and so on , whereas ten years on it's good to look at how Britney's changed and how ...
Advantages: Eva Mendes, some nice action sequences, suspense Disadvantages: Slight tedium, I got sick of watching it after awhile
So here we have a mysterious thriller. Not my favorite genre to start with, but ho hey I watched it anyway. The story involves a police officer Matthias Whitlock (Denzel Washington), Matthias had been having an affair with a married woman who ends up having her house burnt down just after making him the beneficiary of her life insurance policy. As Matthias realises how this looks coupled with the facthe had actually been at the house the night of the fire he tries to conceal all evidence of his ever knowing the woman.
However, his ex-wife (Eva Mendes) happens to be called in to take charge of the case (nothing is ever smple with hollywood) and he has to work against time in a variety of high pressure tasks to make sure she doesn't catch his scent. Things don't turn out to be as simple as that (if you can call that simple) Denzel ...
Phelthew 05.10.2007 (06.10.2007)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Out Of Time (DVD)
Advantages: Completely unexpected twists. Keeps you on edge for most of the film Disadvantages: Slow confusing start. Cheesy neat ending.
some pioneering new treatment. However, she doesn't turn up and the next morning her house is found burnt down along with two dead bodies which apparently belong to her and her husband.
Matt's wife Alex turns out to be the person in charge of the investigation and as the evidence starts to come out of his involvement with Anne, he finds himself in a race against time trying to stay ahead of his wife and his own police force to retrieve the money and catch the real killer. As the plot twists and turns he discovers that the truth is something he would never have imagined.
Blurb on back cover of video
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"Suppose everything you knew - everything you trusted - became a lie. For Matt Lee Whitlock, that nightmare has become a reality. Academy Award winner Denzel Washington plays Whitlock, chief of police in small ...
Vincent, after being fired from his job, spends his days driving around the countryside as he is unable to tell his wife the truth. He becomes entangled in a web of lies which soon catch up with him...
Production Notes, Filmographies, Theatrical Trailer, Commentary By Laurent Cantet
Aspect Ratio
Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Professional reviews
Review
"...TIME OUT is not just an especially subtle and thoughtful psychological drama, it's a provocative, even an unnerving one as well..." (Los Angeles Times, p.C1, 12/04/2002)
"...[A] leisurely film....Mr. Recoing's performance is a sensitive portrayal of a man in the throes of an excruciating spiritual crisis....TIME OUT is entrancingly beautiful..." (New York Times, p.E24, 29/03/2002)
"...TIME OUT is as timely and wrenching a film as you'll find anywhere in these dog days of corporate downsizing....Recoing gives a performance that won't soon be forgotten. Neither will TIME OUT. It's a great movie..." (Rolling Stone, p.84, 25/04/2002)
"...[Livrozet] exudes a relaxed ironic charm..." (Sight and Sound, p.44-5, 01/04/2002)
"...Cantet elicits a superb central performance from the gentle, chameleonic Recoing....An understated treat..." (Total Film, p.104, 01/05/2002)
DVD Description
Vincent (Aurelien Recoing) spends a lot of time in his car. He sleeps in his car sometimes, parked in highway truck stops where buses full of school children pass through during the daytime, and at night stragglers lost en route stop to drink and tell their stories. Having been fired from his job over a month ago, he is a man running from the truth. Unable to admit his unemployed status to his family, he goes to great lengths to convince his wife and three young children that he spends busy days hard at work. He makes phone calls home talking of meetings and appointments, then returns home complaining of fatigue from being overworked. In fact, he drives around a lot, meanders in and out of office buildings, picks up pieces of information and pages through vague research that does not seem to be part of any cohesive goal or plan. The menacing part of it all is that the closer we get to Vincent, the more he seems to convince himself, and us, that he's telling the truth. And the resulting psychological trickery is positively creepy. This French mystery from director Laurent Cantet (HUMAN RESOURCES) carries an eerie chill that seems inexplicable. While the story seems simple enough, Vincent's lies and the way that he manipulates people--especially his family--are expertly conveyed with cold, steady camerawork and a beguiling performance from Recoing.
A "Grimm-er" Live Action (PG) Take on This Classic Brothers Grimm Tale, Directed by the Screenwriter/Co-Author of Edward Scissorhands (Caroline Thompson)
Possibly Not Suitable for Younger Children (not Disney Animation "Pretty-Pretty" version) - Miranda Richardson dominates the action and steals the show as the stepmother. (*)