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

‘Hors du Temps’ review: French auteur Olivier Assayas takes a personal look back at life under lockdown – Berlin Film Festival

Also like Rene, he obsesses over details, and Covid provides plenty of grist for this mill: When he washes his hands, he puts his iPad next to the sink to follow instructions on optimum hand-sanitation on YouTube. The four of them cook elaborate dinners they eat on the terrace, drinking a good deal of wine, smoking like chimneys and recalling terrible pop songs from their youth. Mulling over his thoughts with his new and considerably younger partner Carole (Nora Hamzawi), Paul compares their retreat to the Covid-period paintings by David Hockney.

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