Partir / Leaving (2009)

Suzanne 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.

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Suzanne's life is a terrible struggle between two men. One she does'nt love anymore, her husband, and the other she simply cannot live without. Everything opposes these two men: the husband is an Hospital Don, he represents security, twenty years of bourgeois life style, social status, children too … On the other hand, the lover is a simple worker, and an ex-convict. But Suzan falls madly in love with him, she jeopardizes her comfortable life for this liaison, and one can see that if she does voluntarily she also has no real choice as her attraction for her lover is stronger than anything else. Kristin Scott Thomas is beautiful in this role of a woman who plunges into her own sensuality and renounces to all appearances, for the sake of pure , brutal, carnal love. Her Husband's revenge is terrible; he uses every mean that his social status, and money, give him to hunt down the illegitimate couple, and finally manages to get the lover back to jail, but he cannot recover his wife. She's gone for good, even if he makes love to her for the last time before she -logically- kills him. I have always been a great fan of KST, but I am happy that it's in a French film, that, for the first time, she gives all the magic of her talent. Very far from the snappy English lady roles that the British cinema keeps for her usually. I have seen the film with a female friend, and, funnily enough, I was the one who refused to judge Suzan's behavior. There are things which escape totally to social rules and real love is one of them.

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