Sweet Sorrow Sunday #2: Time To Leave
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Sun 24 June 2007 // 17:00
(Sun 24th / 5pm / £4/3)
SWEET SORROW SUNDAY. # 2.
“Time To Leave”
François Ozon / 2005 / France / 35mm/ 85min
This month's SSS is a matinee show - doors at 4pm, film on at 5pm.
‘Rhythm in Light’ presents the second in a series of Sunday screenings exploring the beauty of melancholy and the sweetness in sorrow.
In a climate of increasingly cynical filmmaking, these screenings represent truly sincere, poetic, experimental and haunting visions. Contemplative musings on love, death, loss and isolation, these films are ultimately full of hope. DJ’s in the bar will be playing similarly bittersweet tunes.
The second in Ozon’s trilogy of films concerning death and possibly his finest work to date, “Time To Leave” is a beautifully lyrical and touching look at that which befalls us all.
The first-person narrative involves a narcissistic 31-year-old photographer who, upon discovering that he has a mere three months left to live, sets about trying to come to terms with his own mortality and make sense of his seemingly meaningless life.
Not nearly as grim as it might sound, this moving, sincere and mature work refreshingly sidesteps sentimentality, moralistic sermonising and neat conclusions in favor of something more engaging and genuine. A careful balancing act that succeeds in expressing the most human of experiences in a way that Hollywood seems rarely able.
SWEET SORROW SUNDAY. # 2.
“Time To Leave”
François Ozon / 2005 / France / 35mm/ 85min
This month's SSS is a matinee show - doors at 4pm, film on at 5pm.
‘Rhythm in Light’ presents the second in a series of Sunday screenings exploring the beauty of melancholy and the sweetness in sorrow.
In a climate of increasingly cynical filmmaking, these screenings represent truly sincere, poetic, experimental and haunting visions. Contemplative musings on love, death, loss and isolation, these films are ultimately full of hope. DJ’s in the bar will be playing similarly bittersweet tunes.
The second in Ozon’s trilogy of films concerning death and possibly his finest work to date, “Time To Leave” is a beautifully lyrical and touching look at that which befalls us all.
The first-person narrative involves a narcissistic 31-year-old photographer who, upon discovering that he has a mere three months left to live, sets about trying to come to terms with his own mortality and make sense of his seemingly meaningless life.
Not nearly as grim as it might sound, this moving, sincere and mature work refreshingly sidesteps sentimentality, moralistic sermonising and neat conclusions in favor of something more engaging and genuine. A careful balancing act that succeeds in expressing the most human of experiences in a way that Hollywood seems rarely able.