Temps qui reste, Le 2005

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's a quiet and poignant look at a life as it slips away, seen through the eyes of a character who's not always likable but remains entirely real. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: It's affecting. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: As with all Ozon's work, Time to Leave resounds with grace notes. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Deeply touching and brutally frank. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: It's about a gay man coming to terms with his mortality, and, in a plot twist that's as contrived as it is ironic, with the biblical injunction to procreate. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: Much of the film works to undercut any sense of real emotion. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: We watch Romain change as he struggles with his mortality and, as he does, we come to care about him. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: But this may be the first time that Ozon has played it too safe, leaving little to separate his film from the countless other portraits of dying scoundrels redeemed. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It does absolutely nothing that previous movies dealing with this subject haven't done. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Moreau's few ripe scenes are choice, and she spices up the joint with her gravelly voice of je ne regrette rien. Read more

Mario Tarradell, Dallas Morning News: A beautiful, frank and utterly absorbing examination of death. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Time to Leave blows a fresh, skeptical wind through fairly corny melodramatic territory while keeping faith with the operatic emotions of the genre. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: ... the film's haunting final scene, which plays out almost entirely without dialogue, catches Ozon at his beguiling, enigmatic best. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Time to Leave comes across with unexpected moments of illuminated stillness, and any movie that gives meaningful face time to the incomparable [Jeanne] Moreau can never be a total waste of time. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: As in any Ozon film, there are indelible performances from strong women here. Read more

Time Out: Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Time to Leave winds up a tiresome affirmation of man's biological duty to procreate; the position is simplistic verging on obnoxious, especially after 5x2's attack on the hetero family model. Read more

Philip Kennicott, Washington Post: Sumptuously filmed but rather distant. Read more