Suspended Time

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Suspended Time

2025,

1h 45m,

Comedy/

Drama/

Romance

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As society recedes in the spring of 2020, film director Paul Berger returns to his childhood home in the provincial Chevreuse Valley. Paul hunkers down with his girlfriend Morgane, his brother Etienne, and Etienne's new girlfriend Carole, but the makeshift household finds new ways to lacerate familiar wounds in this neurotic comedy from master filmmaker Olivier Assayas.

Critics Consensus

Lifted by director Olivier Assayas's fluid storytelling and Vincent Macaigne's magnetic presence, Suspended Time is a warm, gently reflective pandemic portrait that, while slight and overly nostalgic, remains engaging and quietly resonant.

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Daniella Mazzio

Chicago Reader

Sep 5, 2025

Suspended Time isn’t particularly novel, and it’s a touch too thin to successfully stretch into 105 minutes, but you could do for a worse late August hang than these couples.

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Glenn Kenny

RogerEbert.com

Aug 15, 2025

4/4

The film invites you to listen in your own life to that which is often neglected or unheard.

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Kyle Smith

Wall Street Journal

Aug 15, 2025

Calling the spring and summer of 2020 “a utopia,” as Paul does, may be a bit much, but Mr. Assayas has crafted a beautiful and moving tableau of how one small group dealt with a bewildering change.

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

Dec 12, 2025

2/4

Unfortunately, however, to repeat, Suspended Time alternates between middle class obliviousness and awareness of graver, widespread difficulties.

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Alex Saveliev

Film Threat

Oct 1, 2025

8/10

A bit rambling, meandering, and some would argue inconsequential, Suspended Time is nevertheless poetic, earnest, and smart.

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

Sep 24, 2025

3/4

There aren’t great depths of insight to be mined here, but the film is affable and playful enough to entertain while also nagging us to think back on our own experiences during the pandemic, when things may not have been so sun-dappled and easygoing.

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Vincent Macaigne

Paul

Micha Lescot

Etienne

Nine d'Urso

Morgane

Nora Hamzawi

Carole

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Synopsis

As society recedes in the spring of 2020, film director Paul Berger returns to his childhood home in the provincial Chevreuse Valley. Paul hunkers down with his girlfriend Morgane, his brother Etienne, and Etienne's new girlfriend Carole, but the makeshift household finds new ways to lacerate familiar wounds in this neurotic comedy from master filmmaker Olivier Assayas.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Producer: Olivier Delbosc, Olivier Assayas
Screenwriter: Olivier Assayas
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Vortex Sutra, Curiosa Films
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: French
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 15, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 30, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $19.8K
Runtime: 1h 45m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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