Timeout Movie Review:


If you haven’t been depressed lately then go check out Time Out. The film is about Vincent (Aurelien Recoing) who gets himself fired from his good job in a consulting company cause he can‘t stand working there anymore.

After 11 years at the company he just is too bored to stay on. He is having a mid-life crises and he decides to pretend to his family and friends that he got a new job with the United Nations in Switzerland. A job where his actions can affect the future of the world.

He keeps busy by driving around a lot and checking out other people at work all the while lying to his family that he is at his new more important and fulfilling job.

Vincent even cons his friends into giving him large sums of money convincing them that they can make a lot of money through some fake investment he concocted. He needs the money to be able to maintain his new expensive lifestyle.

For a while he fools everyone around him including his wife and kids. When he runs into con man Jean-Michel (Serge Livrozet) who deals in counterfeit goods things start to fall apart quickly. Jean-Michel easily uncovers Vincent’s lies but instead of spoiling his charade offer him a job. Vincent accepts and they work together for a while.

Before long it gets harder and harder for Vincent to maintain his scam and he becomes more nervous making mistakes that lead him into trouble with his wife, family and associates.

His fabricated ideal work life is becoming too big of a burden to carry creating psychological and emotional problems that overwhelm him.

As Vincent goes through his meltdown, you can easily get caught up in his pain. The film captures quiet nicely how some people get stuck in a rut at work and must break free in order to perhaps have a chance to save their mental health.

Time Out has many levels to it that you can relate to if you ever worked at a place where you are frustrated, feel it’s all just meaningless paper pushing and want desperately to leave and find something more satisfying.

Although director Laurent Cantet can get you to understands Vincent plight, he nonetheless overburdens you with a slow and very somber trip through depression, anguish and futility.

If you plan to go see Time Out, you better be in a good state of mind, emotionally and mentally sound otherwise after watching this film you might need a therapist to get your equilibrium back.

Gil Benzeevi

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