Forgotten movie title...

August 10, 2011 7:00 PM

Help me remember the name of a movie, please? Here's what I (think) I remember: 90s or 00s setting, foreign-language with subtitles, set in European local, possibly Scandinavian, overcast skies, commuting to work via train. Plot revolved around a man who lost his job, but did not tell his family, he just kept going into the city every day. Fuzzy on anything else...
posted by Exchequer to media & arts (4 answers total)

Was it Time Out?
posted by FrauMaschine at 7:04 PM on August 10, 2011

Was it the French film, Time Out/L'Emploi du Temps?
posted by mauvest at 7:06 PM on August 10, 2011

Bingo! Thanks to you both...
posted by Exchequer at 7:09 PM on August 10, 2011

It's bizarre that neither Wikipedia nor IMDB mention this, but Time Out was based on a nonfiction book by Emmanuel Carrère called L'Adversaire. There was a film of the same name made in 2002, just one year after Time Out. I haven't seen either movie but the original book is one of the most thrilling nonfiction books I've ever read.
posted by Gortuk at 11:21 AM on August 11, 2011