As society recedes in the spring of 2020, film director Paul Berger (Vincent Macaigne) returns to his childhood home in the provincial Chevreuse Valley. Still processing the legacy of his parents and feeling out the uncertain shape of the world to come, Paul hunkers down with his documentary filmmaker girlfriend Morgane (Nine d’Urso), his music journalist brother Etienne (Micha Lescot), and Etienne’s new girlfriend Carole (Nora Hamzawi). Squabbling over the minutiae of health protocols and the morality of a hermetic lifestyle mediated by ubiquitous online shopping, the makeshift household finds new ways to lacerate familiar wounds. Yet Paul also finds a surprising refuge in the compulsory quietude of pandemic life, an opportunity to reconnect with the books and art and enchanted forests of his youth.
A scabrous French comedy from master filmmaker Olivier Assayas, Suspended Time is a sharply personal and fiercely neurotic ode to the eternal expanse of memory and the allure of life beyond our personal screens.
Suspended Time is Assayas's most personal film to date. It's a luminous reflection on memory, family, and the stillness of lockdown. Shot in his own childhood home and with his own narration, the film drifts between the everyday and the profound. Small rituals tun into lasting impressions. Tender, wry, and deeply human, it captures the poetry of living in pause. This is cinema for those who treasure films that invite reflection and stay with you long after the screen is dark.
Presented in partnership with Alliance Française Miami Metro.
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