“Time Out,” April 17 2003, DVD. This well-crafted and such a French film chronicles a man fired from his job as a manager who constructs a false life with a fake new job and keeps up the pretense, lying to his family, swindling his friends and parents to raise money, and even becoming involved in smuggling to bring in some extra cash. The contradictions abound in his new, false world. This one might have been made by an American avant-garde filmmaker in the 1970s, but now can only come out of Europe. A painful film to watch in so many ways, it is, nonetheless, very good.