Assayas

It’s drama, it’s action, it’s about trying to make sense of the chaos that is transforming our world in the strangest, most disturbing ways,” notes Assayas.

Like his 2016 film ”Personal Shopper,” “Suspended Time” is also about ghosts — more particularly the ghost of his father, the French filmmaker Raymond Assayas aka Jacques Rémy, who owned the house in which the film unfurls.

But that genre-hopping (not to mention the movie’s willfully inscrutable design) is Assayas’s way of bringing a lighthearted approach to serious questions about grieving and disillusionment.

Fleet-fingered keyboardist Gil Assayas got perhaps his biggest stamp of approval when he was tapped to fill in for Ralph Schuckett on the 2018 reunion tour of Todd Rundgren’s rock group Utopia.