Changing Times
Original Title
Les Temps Qui Changent- Director: André Téchiné
- Writer: André Téchiné; Laurent Guyot
- Producer: Bénédicte Bellocq; Paulo Branco
CGiii Comment
Strangely, for Téchiné, very uninteresting.
The story is silly...a grown man resorts to witchcraft to get his ex-lover back.
There's a flippant bisexual son being flippant with emotional discharge - this character adds nothing to the proceedings...a waste of film time.
The culture clashes which are evident and unavoidable are rapidly avoided, resolved or forgotten about.
It's a lazy film - not good enough for public consumption.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Connections and personality: France and Morocco, sisters, mothers and sons, husbands and lovers. Antoine arranges a job in Tangiers so he can reconnect to Cécile, his first love, unseen for 30 years. Sami, her son, comes from Paris with his friend Nadia and her son to see his mother and his Moroccan boyfriend. Nadia wants to see Aïcha, her twin, a devout Muslim unwilling to see her pill-popping sister. Antoine harbors romantic fantasies; Cécile lives in the real world of an empty marriage to Natan, a Jewish doctor who's broke, drinks too much, and wants to move back to Casablanca. Cécile is a follower. Dogs and mud present dangers, as does complaisance. Will the earth move?
Cast & Characters
Catherine Deneuve as Cécile;
Gérard Depardieu as Antoine Lavau;
Gilbert Melki as Natan;
Malik Zidi as Sami;
Lubna Azabal as Nadia / Aïcha;
Tanya Lopert as Rachel Meyer;
Nabila Baraka as Nabila;
Idir Elomri as Saïd;
Nadem Rachati as Bilal;
Jabir Elomri as Saïd;
Christophe Freudiger as Joueur du casino;
Hicham Ibrahimi as Réceptionniste