There is a sense of a running gag inHors du Temps(renamedSuspended Timefor the English-language market).
It is a glorious summer, just like the remembered summers of childhood.
The sun shines constantly.
Vincent Macaigne in ‘Hors du Temps‘Carole Bethuel
Like Rene, Paul is a film director.
He bleaches the door handles.
Etienne rolls his eyes and lectures him about the working conditions in Amazon warehouses.
His own obsession is simple: every night, he gets a little closer to cooking the perfect crepe.
It is a French idyll.
Assayas films their garden romps in a freewheeling style that evokes a sense-memory of Eric Rohmer.
At the same time, this remains their parents house.
He sleeps in his mothers bed, which means he finds it difficult to sleep at all.
Or are they reconstructing it now, just as they are revising their relationship with the house itself?
Assayass film, slight and playful though it is, is a stab in that dark.
