Olivier Assayas & Vincent Macaigne Comedy ‘Suspended Time’ Trailer

Olivier Assayas & Vincent Macaigne Comedy ‘Suspended Time’ Trailer

by Alex Billington
July 18, 2025
Source: YouTube

“There’s so much pressure to be a part of the world.” Music Box Films has revealed the official trailer for an indie film titled Suspended Time, the latest feature film by acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas (after his recent work on Wasp Network and the recent “Irma Vep” series). This premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival last year and got pretty bad reviews – it’s a script from the pandemic and is set during Covid-19 lockdowns, and no good film came out of that time. During spring in 2020, two married couples quarantine together in a country house in the provincial Chevreuse Valley, leading to rising tensions and revelations about their relationships. 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. With Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot, Nine d’Urso, Nora Hamzawi, Maud Wyler, Dominique Reymond, and Magdalena Lafont. Unless you’re a huge Olivier Assayas fan, or someone who must watch more French films, this doesn’t really seem like it’s going to be worth the time.

Here’s the official US trailer (+ poster) for Olivier Assayas’ film Suspended Time, from YouTube:

As society recedes in 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 doc filmmaker girlfriend Carole (Nora Hamzawi), his music journalist brother Etienne (Micha Lescot), and Etienne’s recent girlfriend Morgan (Nine d’Urso). Squabbling over the minutiae of health protocols & morality of a hermetic lifestyle mediated by ubiquitous online shopping, the makeshift household finds recent ways to lacerate familiar wounds. Yet he 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. Suspended Time, also known as Hors du temps in French, is written and directed by acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, director of the films Winter’s Child, Paris Awakens, Cold Water, Demonlover, Clean, Boarding Gate, Summer Hours, Something in the Air, Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper, Non-Fiction, Wasp Network, and recent “Irma Vep” series recently. Produced by Olivier Delbosc & Olivier Assayas. This initially premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival last year. Music Box Films will open Assayas’ Suspended Time film in select US theaters on August 15th, 2025.

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