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Leaving

Drama
Country/Year: France/2009
Length: 86 minutes
Classification: 15
Original title: Partir

Synopsis:

In French with English sub-titles

With her idle bourgeois lifestyle getting her down, well-to-do mother Suzanne goes back to work as a physiotherapist in the south of France. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room at their house but when Suzanne and the man hired to do the building work meet, their mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne must then decide whether to give up everything and live this all engulfing passion to the fullest.

Kristin Scott Thomas has been nominated for Best Actress in the 2010 Cesar Awards for Leaving. Kristin will also receive the Volta Award at this year’s Dublin Film Festival.

'We seem to be witnessing the prime of Kristin Scott Thomas as French cinema offers her some of the most demanding roles of her career' Screen International

'Kristin Scott Thomas pulls out fully 100% of the stops available in this fiercely emotional French film' The Guardian

'It's an old, old story - but Kristin Scott Thomas is so good as Suzanne, the wife in question, that the result is intriguing' The Evening Standard

'Even for the routinely terrific Kristin Scott Thomas, the infidelity-themed Leaving is a top-drawer thesping workout' The Daily Telegraph

Director: Catherine Corsini
Actors: Kristen Scott Thomas, Sergi Lopez, Yvan Attal
Rental: Metrodome Distribution Ltd.