Olivier Assayas’ ‘Suspended Time’ Hunkers Down on Digital, VOD on Sept. 30

September 16, 2025September 16, 2025

“A piercing, headily thoughtful passage about time and memory and cinema…The tenderness of the story is stirring.” —The New York Times

“A poetic memoir, a brittle family-tension comedy, a game playing on the twin registers of storytelling and autobiography…” —Screen International

'Suspended Time' Hunkers Down on Digital, VOD on Sept. 30

ABOUT THE FILM
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 Carole (Nora Hamzawi), his music journalist brother Etienne (Micha Lescot), and Etienne’s new girlfriend Morgan (Nine d’Urso). 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.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Olivier Assayas
STARRING Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot, Nine d’Urso, Nora Hamzawi, Maud Wyler
PRODUCED BY Olivier Assayas, Olivier Delbosc
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY Eric Gautier
EDITED BY Marion Monnier
A Music Box Films Release

Website: https://www.musicboxfilms.com/film/suspended-time/