Suspended Time

This has been described as a pandemic movie, but while it does take place during quarantine, it is more concerned with using it as an excuse for an exercise in autofiction centered on making the fiction as thin as possible. A filmmaker, his rock journalist brother and their…

Filipe Furtado

low key labeled laborious lethargic lockdown laziness

shookone

More like Wasted Time

Ken Arnold

kept hearing that this was minor Assayas but what does that even mean when we're talking about a goat — languid but, nonetheless, sublime and it's often very funny in its observations about filmmaking and/or covid-era social distancing struggles, if you told me Hong…

Justin LaLiberty

Doesn't feel good at all to speak ill of something that contains a scene which uses Bob Dylan's «Murder Most Foul» as a punchline, but alas... Talking to a journalist – via Zoom, of course – the Assayas stand-in at one point remarks that he is well aware of how privileged…

Luca Bruno

Olivier Assayas channels Caveh Zahedi and takes a stab at his own The Show About The Show. So indulgent bordering on obscene, somehow so self aware yet baffling in its blindspots in conversations around privilege. He’s one of my five favorite filmmakers of all time give or…

Brandon Streussnig

No doubt all the self-reflexive, high bourgeois insights would deter anyone who’s not a fan (or even familiar with) Assayas’ work, but there’s something cathartic about its introspection. It might not always be entertaining, but it provides enough food for thought along the…

MJsays

Assayas’ In Water, or maybe just his Hong film in general. A quick perusal here suggests that this movie is not particularly well-liked but I very much enjoyed it. Light, airy, occasionally essayistic, it’s a lovely little trifle.

Daniel Gorman

It took a longtime to find its footing but once it was clear that Suspended Time was Assayas version of “auteur reckoning with their anxiety about our current time”, I got invested. Returning to ideas that he previously better explored in Summer Hours and Irma Vep (2022),…

yuri