Le temps qui reste (2005)

English title: Time to Leave.
Correct translation of the French title: The Time That Remains.

A man finds out he has terminal cancer.

Based on one sequence alone, a more than improbable threesome, one can safely dismiss this film as idiotic. As for the remainder of the film, although I found it generally not very convincing, it's just too superficial to be worthy of analysis. A few medical details bothered me though, and someone correct me if I am wrong: (1) the protagonist complains that some of the exams were painful. I don't know of any exams related to cancer diagnostic that could even remotely be called painful; (2) at a certain point, the protagonist asserts that his condition is not hereditary, "it's just disseminated cancer". This should probably not be held against the filmmaker, as it could be accounted for by this one character's ignorance, but just for the record he is not right in saying that his "disseminated cancer" is not hereditary before making some genetic tests which would reveal whether he has certain genes which are factors in the type of cancer he has; and since he had the disease at such an early age, the probability that he is genetically predisposed is very high indeed.

Rating: 32