ORIGINAL TITLE The Time Being

YEAR 2012

RUNNING TIME 85 min. 

COUNTRY 

DIRECTOR Nenad Cicin-Sain

SCREENWRITER Nenad Cicin-Sain, Richard N. Gladstein

COMPOSER Jan A.P. Kaczmarek

CINEMATOGRAPHER Mihai Malaimare Jr.

CAST Frank Langella, Wes Bentley, Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Allen White, Corey Stoll, Ahna O'Reilly,Aiden Lovekamp, Gina Gallego, Megan Kuhlmann, Sandra Seacat, Mila Brener, Thurn Hoffman

STUDIO/PRODUCER FilmColony / Time Picture Company

GENRE Mystery

SYNOPSIS/PLOT An artist meets a mysterious and wealthy benefactor and their relationship is not what it appears to be.

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"An exhaustingly pretentious heave of artistic self-involvement, 'The Time Being' takes an exceptionally handsome journey to nowhere at al" (Jeannette Catsoulis: The New York Times)

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"[Viewers] won't find much here besides Langella's typically austere performance, some lazy character sketches (...) and the sensation one gets after having watched paint dry, painfully slowly, on a canvas (...) Rating: ** (out of five)" (Time Out)

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"While the underdeveloped script (...) never earns its sense of self-importance, the visuals are evocative enough to draw us further into the movie's ultimately unsatisfying mysteries (...) Rating: ** (out of five)" (Elizabeth Weitzman: New York Daily News)

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"Not to be glib, but sitting through the centric chamber piece 'The Time Being' is truly like watching paint dry" (Los Angeles Times)

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