Changing Times

Changing Times (original title: Les Temps qui changent) is a 2004 French drama film directed by André Téchiné. Running about 95 minutes, it weaves themes of love, desire, and identity into a multi-layered narrative built around intersecting lives in Tangier, Morocco.

Antoine, an engineer sent to Tangier to supervise a major construction project, hides his true motive: finding Cécile, his first love from thirty years earlier. Cécile, a radio presenter, has settled in Morocco and is married to a Jewish doctor, Nathan. The story widens when Cécile's son Sami arrives from Paris with his girlfriend Nadia, and tensions between cultures and generations shape the film's fabric. Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu star, alongside Gilbert Melki, Malik Zidi, and Lubna Azabal.