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‘Hors du Temps’ Review: Olivier Assayas Takes A Personal Look Back At Life Under Covid Lockdown – Berlin Film Festival

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There is a sense of a running gag in Hors du Temps (renamed Suspended Time for the English-language market). In his complex, autofictional 2022 TV series Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas cast as the director of a film called Irma Vep — a film he had, in fact, made in real life 20 years earlier — the actor Vincent Macaigne, who cheekily developed a version of Assayas that not only picked up on his distinctively reedy voice, but also nobbled his quirky irritability and sensitivities.

That character was called Rene, but he was not a million miles from Paul, the character Macaigne plays in this account of two brothers confined with their partners for the duration of the Covid lockdown.

They have returned to the house where they lived as boys and where they have rarely returned since: a vine-covered cottage in a picturesque hamlet.

It is a glorious summer, just like the remembered summers of childhood. The sun shines constantly. If Assayas really is embarking on a later-life version of François Truffaut’s symbiosis with actor/avatar Jean-Pierre Léaud, documenting his own life through an alter ego, he is clearly not out to flatter himself.

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