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Venice International Film Festival 2001
TIME OUT
Official Competition
Toronto - San Sebastian - New-York
International Film Festivals 2001
LAURENT CANTET
The character of Vincent is a man
who seems somewhat invisible, who
appears to blend perfectly into the background. He’s a chameleon with the
frightening ability to lead a double life…
How to run away from everything one
has constructed ? From this point of
view, TIME OUT (L’EMPLOI DU TEMPS)
tells the story of a fantastic escape
effort. Vincent’s escape, however, is very
ambiguous, since he actually doesn’t
wish to change his life at all. He only
wants to free himself from all financial
and social traps.
So he opts for an unbearable fabricated
position, somewhere between the comforts of middle-class social recognition
(family, work, money) and a more
troubling world of easy money and
shady business. Paradoxically, making
up an ideal life will end up being a
full-time job for him. From writing
through editing, the objective was to
create the double subjectivity which
makes Vincent the sincerest of liars, an
actor of his own life.
Laurent Cantet
Credits
Director Laurent CANTET
Original screenplay Robin CAMPILLO and Laurent CANTET
Original music Jocelyn POOK
Cinematography Pierre MILON
Editor Robin CAMPILLO
Sound Olivier MAUVEZIN
Mixing Fabrice CONESA-ALCOLEA, Valérie DELOOF
Art Director Romain DENIS
Producer Caroline BENJO
Executive Producer Barbara LETELLIER
Associate producers Carole SCOTTA and Simon ARNAL
A Haut et Court Production.
In co-production with Arte France Cinema,
Rhône-Alpes Cinema and Havas Images.
With the participation of Canal +,
Centre National de la Cinématographie,
Région Rhône-Alpes and Sofica Sofinergie 5.
Developped with the support of MEDIA,
the Centre National de la Cinématographie
and the PROCIREP.
Cast
Vincent
Muriel
Jean-Michel
Father
Mother
Aurélien RECOING
Karin VIARD
Serge LIVROZET
Jean-Pierre MANGEOT
Monique MANGEOT
AURÉLIEN RECOING
KARIN VIARD
TIME OUT
(L’EMPLOI DU TEMPS)
A FILM BY LAURENT CANTET
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TIME OUT
LAURENT CANTET
Synopsis
Vincent appears to happily spend his weeks on the road, busy with
business trips and meetings. He shares vague details with his loving
wife, Muriel, and their three children…
But Vincent’s professional life is actually fictional.
He hasn’t been able to tell his family and friends
about losing his long-time consulting job weeks ago.
Vincent feels pressured into inventing a prestigious new job for
himself in Geneva. Telling lies becomes a full-time occupation.
To maintain his lost income, he desperately betrays even his friends
that trust him in shady investment deals.
All Vincent ever wanted was to
call time out from a suffocating
professional life, yet somehow
allow his family’s life to continue
as before. Now the ever-growing
tension of Vincent’s world is
quickly closing in…
The expectations of a provincial
community where your job is
who you are. A former colleague’s
insistent concern.
A father’s overbearing desire for
the best for his son.
Biography
TIME OUT (L’EMPLOI DU TEMPS)
is the second feature film by
writer-director Laurent Cantet.
Cantet’s debut was the
successful 1999 film HUMAN
RESOURCES (RESSOURCES
HUMAINES), which received the
Cesar (French Academy Award)
for Best First Film and Best
New Actor for Jalil Lespert.
Amongst its numerous prizes,
HUMAN RESOURCES won the
New Directors Prize at the
San Sebastian Festival and the
Fassbinder/Discovery Prize at
the European Film Awards.
Cantet had previously directed
the 1997 made-for-television
LES SANGUINAIRES in 1997 for
the "2000 Seen By" series.
A 1996 graduate of Paris’ IDHEC
film school, Cantet made
two acclaimed shorts,
1995’s JEUX DE PLAGE and
1993’s TOUS A LA MANIF,
a Prix Jean Vigo-winner.
Karin VIARD
Karin Viard won the Cesar
(French Academy Award) for
Best Actress in 2000 for her
performance in Solveig
Anspach’s HAUT LES CŒURS.
In addition to Laurent Cantet’s
TIME OUT (L’EMPLOI DU TEMPS),
she can also be seen in
Laurent Tuel’s JEU D’ENFANTS
and Marion Vernoux’s REINES
D’UN JOUR. Her past starring
roles include Catherine Corsini’s
LA NOUVELLE EVE (1999),
Philippe Harel’s
LES RANDONNEURS (1997),
Alain Tanner’s FOURBI (1996)
and Christine Pascal’s ADULTERE
MODE D’EMPLOI (1995).
She has had supporting roles in
numerous films, including Diane
Kurys’ LES ENFANTS DU SIECLE
(1999), Christian Vincent’s
JE NE VOIS PAS CE QU’ON ME
TROUVE (1997), Mathieu
Kassovitz’s LA HAINE (1995),
Nicole Garcia’s LE FILS PREFERE
(1994) and Caro & Jeunet’s
DELICATESSEN (1991).
Aurelien RECOING
Vincent in Laurent Cantet’s TIME
OUT (L’EMPLOI DU TEMPS) is
Aurelien Recoing’s first leading
role in a feature film. His recent
supporting roles in film include
Laurent Tuel’s JEU D’ENFANTS
(2001), Andrzej Zulawski’s
LA FIDELITE (2000) and
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa’s
LA VIE MODERNE (2000).
Winner of the prestigious
Gerard Philippe Prize in 1989,
Recoing has been an accomplished
theater actor since the mid1970s. In addition to having
played in Chekov, Shakespeare
and Moliere, Recoing has also
directed several theater
productions, most recently TDM3
by Didier-Georges Gabily.