Leaving

About the movie

Suzanne is about forty years old, a doctor’s wife and mother of two teenagers living in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist, a job she trained for but quit in order to bring up her children. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. The man in charge of the building work is Ivan, an odd job man who has been to prison. When he and Suzanne meet, the mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all-engulfing passion to the full.
Leaving is a gripping tale about the power of love and the terrible forces of separation. Directed by Catherine Corsini, the film stars a stellar cast with Kristin Scott Thomas (I've Loved You So Long, Gosford Park), Sergi López (Pan's Labyrinth) and Yvan Attal (Munich). Theatrical release across Scandinavia. Box office- and critics’ favourite in France.

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