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The working life: French families then and now.(two motion pictures)
The French stage actor Aurelien Recoing, who plays Vincent, the fortyish hero of Laurent Cantet's extraordinary "Time Out," is a blandly presentable fellow, not quite handsome but reassuringly large, with a quick smile and a friendly, attentive manner. He seems a decent and plausible man, but once you get past Recoing's welcoming smile you enter a realm of mystery -- the oddities lodged in the hollows of Vincent's good will. Vincent drives his car through the French suburbs and countryside near the Swiss border, calling his wife on a cell phone and promising to be home for dinner, and then calling back with regrets -- he's stuck, he has meetings to attend, he has to stay ...
- Alienated labor: An Interview with Laurent Cantet.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Porton, Richard Ellickson, Lee March 22, 2002 700+ words
...resides in its subtle linkage of Vincent's complex ruses and the...s brilliant portrayal of Vincent, and Jocelyn Pook's haunting...interconnections between the two films? Laurent Cantet: Human Resources is the story...cannot exist. In addition, Vincent in Time Out experiences the...
- Catherine Deneuve accepts her kudo from French helmer Laurent Cantet Friday.(V)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety June 23, 2009 700+ words
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Catherine Deneuve accepts her kudo from French helmer Laurent Cantet Friday during the Taormina Film Fest in Italy.
- Film business: labor as art: Cantet's Time Out and Human Resources. (The...
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Gitlin, Todd March 25, 2002 700+ words
...for the movies? Is alienation, perhaps, an abstract invention of Marxists? In two fine films, the French director Laurent Cantet puts the lie to this prejudice--a prejudice that is, by the way, as much foreign as it is Hollywood. In Time Out...
- 'Time Out' of work engrosses.(ARTS)(MOVIES)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 11, 2002 700+ words
...The French director Laurent Cantet made a striking feature...a family man named Vincent (Aurelien Recoing...little more fond of Vincent on sight than he should...soul mate - as long as Vincent can reconcile himself...CREDITS: Directed by Laurent Cantet. Screenplay by Robin...
- `Time Out'.(The Dallas Morning News)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Vognar, Chris April 30, 2002 700+ words
...Time Out" lies in Vincent's need to create...simpletons. Director Laurent Cantet, who tackled downsizing...culture from which Vincent can't bring himself...audience and to those in Vincent's life. It ultimately...Livroset. Directed by Laurent Cantet. Rated PG-13 (adult...
- `Time Out'.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) April 30, 2002 700+ words
...Time Out" lies in Vincent's need to create...simpletons. Director Laurent Cantet, who tackled downsizing...culture from which Vincent can't bring himself...audience and to those in Vincent's life. It ultimately...Livroset. Directed by Laurent Cantet. Rated PG-13 (adult...
- Have Car, Will Travel.(Time Out)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Klawans, Stuart April 15, 2002 700+ words
...Recoing get caught in a lie in Laurent Cantet's Time Out. As Vincent, a French management consultant...without management approval--Vincent must continually justify his...brilliantly shows you how Vincent is a little slow with the...
- Films show ways to shun work out of business. (At The Movies).
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Cunneen, Joseph May 24, 2002 700+ words
...The central situation of Laurent Cantet's Time Out is ominous. At the outset Vincent (Aurelien Recoing) is...can recognize as work; Vincent learns the vague lingo...Aurelien Recoing's Vincent is low-key, plausible...
