Suspended Time
Two brothers and their romantic partners try to maintain their sanity amid the extended isolation of the 2020 pandemic lockdown while cohabiting in their provincial family house in this disarmingly personal work of autofiction from the great Olivier Assayas.
“Never have I felt like less of a filmmaker,” frets Paul Berger (Vincent Macaigne). It’s April of 2020, and the film director has escaped to the provinces, living in lockdown with his brother Etienne (Micha Lescot), a middle-aged music journalist, and their respective romantic partners. The couples try to maintain their sanity in the midst of extended isolation in this tonally masterful dramedy from the great Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Personal Shopper). In an autobiographical vein, Assayas presents a disarmingly personal (and often very funny) perspective on the pandemic, taking place at the director’s very own family house. Amassing a wealth of insights into the foundational relationships and rural background that shaped him, Assayas is equally adept at thoughtfully reconstructing an unprecedented moment in our shared history with the grace and compassion that only a master filmmaker can bring. A 2025 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema selection. A Music Box Films release.
A gently smart and warm-spirited look at love as the core term of human existence.”
—Pat Brown, Slant Magazine
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