![]() He appears "guiltily obsessed with somehow reconnecting with her". Seeking reconciliation with his estranged daughter Maggie (Malone), his vulnerability is palpable. His eventual meeting with the advocate Laura (Datz) leads to more self-realizations about the help he needs. ![]() He eventually gets a bed at a homeless shelter, where he befriends the mentally unstable but friendly Dixon (Vereen).ĭixon keeps George company as the latter goes through the trials of applying for public benefits. Up until shortly before the end of the film, he is denying to others and himself that he is homeless, George pawns his belongings to buy liquor, later only beer. Several attempted telephone calls yield no help, and George is forced to sleep on the streets.Īt one point, seeking warmth, he sits at a public hospital emergency room where he is approached by staff nurse Maire (Hughes) who treats him with compassion. One can only guess he had been living on the edge for a while. From the start, George is indigent he claims that someone has stolen his wallet. Later viewers find out this apartment was not his, but rented to an evicted acquaintance, whom he calls "Sheila" (Sedgwick). Set in the urban cacophony of New York City, the story begins with the mild-mannered but confused George (Gere) being thrown out from an apartment by Art (Buscemi). It was released on September 11, 2015, by IFC Films. I admire the closing scenes of the film, which seem to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for Vincent's complaint.Time Out of Mind is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Oren Moverman and starring Richard Gere, Jena Malone, Ben Vereen, Kyra Sedgwick, and Steve Buscemi. The father heartbreakingly returns to his machine even after being fired, because he cannot imagine his life without a job. One of the son's tasks is to lay off many employees, including his father. "Time Out" is the second film by Laurent Cantet, whose first was " Human Resources" (2000), about a young man from a working-class family who goes off to college and returns as the human resources manager at the factory where his father has worked all of his life as a punch-press operator. He is more honest than those who simply exchange theoretical goods Jean-Michel sells fake Guccis, Enron sells fake dollars. What he does is not legal, but it does involve the sale and delivery of actual physical goods. Jean-Michel imports fake brand-name items. In his travels Vincent encounters Jean-Michel ( Serge Livrozet), who spots him for a phony and might have a place in his organization for the right kind of phony. Vincent's children are not much interested in their dad's work. Vincent's father is the kind of man who, because he can never be pleased, does not distinguish between one form of displeasure and another. What throws her off is that there was something not quite convincing about his old job, too. His wife, Muriel ( Karin Viard), a schoolteacher, suspects that something is not quite convincing about this new job. Actually, he seems more worn out by the experience of interacting with his family during his visits at home. ![]() You would think the movie would be about how this life of deception, these lonely weeks on the road, wear him down. Since he has not figured out how to live without money, he persuades friends and relatives to invest in his fictional company, and uses that money to live on. ![]() He calls his wife frequently with progress reports: the meeting went well, the client needs more time, the pro-ject team is assembling tomorrow, he has a new assignment. He begins taking long overnight trips, sleeping in his car, finding his breakfast at cold, lonely roadside diners at daybreak. Vincent, played by the sad-eyed, sincere Aurelien Recoing, is not a con man so much as a pragmatist who realizes that since his job exists mostly in his mind anyway, he might as well eliminate the middleman, his employer. The best way to get a job through a program designed to find you a job is to get a job with the program. It's an agency associated with the United Nations, and as nearly as I can tell, its purpose is to train managers who can go to Africa and train managers. He lives in France, near the Swiss border, and one day he wanders into an office building in Switzerland, eavesdrops on some of the employees, picks up a brochure, and tells his relatives he works in a place like this. Free from his job, Vincent is seduced by the pleasure of getting in his car and just driving around. ![]()
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