Leaving (2009)★ 6.3/10

Unrated · FR · 85 min · August 12, 2009

Crime
Drama
Romance

Written by: Catherine Corsini, Gaëlle Macé, Antoine Jaccoud, Emmanuèle Bernheim

Suzanne "Dame Kristin Scott Thomas" is a well to do married mother, but her bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist by building an office in their backyard. Then Suzanne falls in love with the man hired to build the office.

Original title

Leaving

Storyline

Suzanne (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man hired to do the building meet, the mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all engulfing passion to the fullest.

Rating

6.3 / 10 · 4,686

Companies

Pyramide Productions, Caméra One, VMP, Solaire Production, Canal+, CinéCinéma, Cofinova 5, Région Languedoc-Roussillon, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Cofinova 3, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Angoa-Agicoa, Pyramide Distribution, Alfa Films, Atlantis Entertainment, Benelux Film Distributors, IFC Films, Nutopia, Star Films, Teodora Film, BBC Two, Clap - Produção de Filmes, Film1, Imovision, Lumière Home Entertainment, Metrodome Distribution, Midget Entertainment, Rai Movie, Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE)

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