As my 30th birthday approached, I considered too late which movie I’d want to make the ceremonial final watch of my 20s. Once I got home from a birthday weekend of food, drink, and conversations about the finer things—writers, filmmakers, music, and theater—I was too tired to put anything on. Unintentionally but appropriately, the last film then of my 20s was Olivier Assayas’s latest, Suspended Time , a breezy French comedy full of food, drink, and conversations about the finer things.

Suspended Time —which explicitly and implicitly pulls from Assayas’s real life—takes place at the onset of the 2020 pandemic. Unlike this summer’s other COVID-19 comedy, Eddington , Assayas’s film is more interested in how the pandemic illuminates people as they stubbornly are, instead of using the eve

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