Time Has Come was Guiraudie’s second feature film and remains, with That Old Dream That Moves, the most overtly political of his films. Like Sunshine for the Scoundrels, Time Has Come takes place in an alternate reality, similar to ours, but ordered according to the logic of epic fantasy and the Western. Whereas the earlier film celebrated a certain ludic utopianism, Guiraudie here emphasizes the risks of dreams of escape. The film presents a world of bandits, warriors and shepherds in which each of the central characters pursues the hope of a better future, or at least the consummation of an improbable desire, only to find it frustrated by the reassertion of the present order by the powers that be.