Suspended Time Reviews - Metacritic (original) (raw)
SummaryAs society recedes in the spring of 2020, film director Paul Berger (Vincent Macaigne) returns to his childhood home in the provincial Chevreuse Valley. Paul hunkers down with his girlfriend Morgane (Nine d’Urso), his brother Etienne (Micha Lescot), and Etienne’s new girlfriend Carole (Nora Hamzawi), but the makeshift household finds new ways to ... Read More
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54% Positive
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Aug 15, 2025
Structurally sound while at the same time lacking anything you could call a “plot,” “Suspended Time” invites you to listen in your own life to that which is often neglected or unheard.
Oct 1, 2025
Audiences have grown so accustomed to nonstop thrills that the film does feel like a relic of sorts; they don’t make ’em like this anymore.
Aug 14, 2025
Though Assayas is best known for his incisive cultural commentary, the subdued regimes and musings in Suspended Time are just as enthralling in their own quiet way.
Aug 14, 2025
The most appealing character in Suspended Time is Assayas, a hovering offscreen presence who delivers the confessional, gracefully digressive narration.
Feb 17, 2024
It’s a movie which reminds us that for all the anxieties, this period of enforced inactivity was for grownups of a certain age and financial security not entirely unpleasant – a reminder of the endless, aimless summer days of childhood, an Edenic existence outside time which workaholic media professionals thought never to see again. A kind of miracle.
Feb 18, 2024
Alternating a thinly fictionalised portrait of the artist isolating at his family’s country home with fully autobiographical narration by the director himself, this mildly amusing but vastly indulgent bagatelle feels a tardy entry in the first wave of lockdown cinema — too late to feel fresh, but still too soon to have accumulated much meaningful perspective on an experience we all remember too well.
Aug 12, 2025
The film may be commenting on the cushy way the rich and famous coped with Covid. But it’s insufferable at depicting insufferability.
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Production Company:
- Curiosa Films
- Vortex Sutra
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- Cofinova 20
- Cinémage 18
- Cinéaxe 5
Release Date:Aug 15, 2025
Duration:1 h 45 m
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination