Time Out (2001 film)

Time Out French LEmploi du temps is a 2001 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet and starring Aurlien Recoing and Karin Viard. The film is loosely based on the life story of JeanClaude Romand though without the criminal element, and it focuses on one of Cantets favorite subject matters a mans relationship with his job.

The film tells the story of Vincent, a middleaged man who is fired after having spent more thanyears working for a prestigious consulting firm. Unable to admit to his family that he has been fired, the unemployed executive continues to pretend he is going to the office every day. In reality, Vincent spends his time aimlessly driving the highways of France and Switzerland, reading papers, or sleeping in his car.As time progresses, Vincent invents more and more elaborate lies, throwing himself into a vicious spiral of deceit. To sustain his bourgeois lifestyle, Vincent sets up a Ponzi scheme an investment scam and is eventually enlisted into smuggling by career thief JeanMichel. Murielle, Vincents wife, after discovering her husbands life of lies attempts to bring him back into the realm of reality. ........

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