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Mood:
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Changing Times, 2004
French
France
Profile of Changing Times
Changing Times can be described as emotional, gloomy, and touching. The plot revolves around lovers reunited, forbidden love, and a dysfunctional family. The main genres are drama, foreign, and romance. In terms of style, Changing Times is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Changing Times is located in Morocco and France. It takes place in contemporary times.
Summary of Changing Times
Re-teaming French icons Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu for their sixth on-screen pairing, Changing Times is a complex and dolorous look at the life of Cecile (Deneuve), a French expatriate living in the changing city of Tangiers with her Moroccan doctor husband, Nathan (Gilbert Melki). After their 20-something son, Sami (Malik Zidi), his pill-popping girlfriend, Nadia (Lubna Azabal), and their nine-year-old become unexpected houseguests, Cecile and Nathan have new things to focus on besides the routine-ness of their marriage. Enter Antoine (Depardieu), who found first love with Cecile 30 years before, and has come to Tangiers on business--and with the intention of rekindling a romance with her. But when a work-related accident at a construction site sends him into a coma, it looks like Antoine's plans may never work out.
With a rich, bleak tapestry of intersecting characters, Changing Times places a realistic look at love and relationships against the devastating effects of globalization. While any filmgoer would be pleased to see Deneuve and Depardieu together again on film, Techine throws an engrossing curveball by giving us scene after scene in which Cecile and Antoine are clearly ill-at-ease with each other--and often with unpleasant results. Changing Times doesn't aim to please--instead, Techine shows the messy ways in which families and lovers interact, understanding that there are not always easy resolutions or happy endings. Depardieu's Andre is sad, but hopeful--an imposing figure with a soft heart--while Deneuve is allowed to gloriously look her age in a refined and restrained performance.
Details
| Language: | French |
| Country: | France |
| Release date: | 23 June 2006 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
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as Cécile
as Antoine Lavau
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
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- by: Noel Murray
The Hollywood Reporter
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- by: Kirk Honeycutt
