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  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary Suzanne is the bourgeois wife of a successful doctor, Samuel, living together with their children in the south of France. Weighted down by a thrill-less lifestyle and a stale marriage, Suzanne falls for the handsome young Ivan, an immigrant ex-con working on their property. Their affair is passionate, but Suzanne is wracked by guilt. Whe...

Directed By: Catherine Corsini

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

  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 25 m

Leaving

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
56
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Suzanne is the bourgeois wife of a successful doctor, Samuel, living together with their children in the south of France. Weighted down by a thrill-less lifestyle and a stale marriage, Suzanne falls for the handsome young Ivan, an immigrant ex-con working on their property. Their affair is passionate, but Suzanne is wracked by guilt. Whe...

Directed By: Catherine Corsini

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

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
56
40% Positive
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60% Mixed
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0% Negative
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75
Dec 17, 2010
In the infidelity drama Leaving, British reserve gets overtaken by French passion, and the subsequent events have the horrific momentum of a slow-motion car crash.
By Joe Williams FULL REVIEW
75
The plot isn't a new one (remember Lady Chatterley?), but Corsini gives it a few twists and turns that keep matters fresh and suspenseful.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
Kristin Scott Thomas is the best though not the only reason to see Leaving.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
60
Tightly wound and crafted, with robust performances by Kristin Scott Thomas and recurrent Spanish Don Juan Sergi Lopez, the picture offers a rough, no-frills take on a story as old as France itself.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 13, 2011
The only reason to see Leaving - and it's not a bad reason at all - is for the sight of Kristin Scott Thomas in a rare happy mood.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
40
The class issues make them pariahs, the love scenes belong on Cinemax After Dark, and the emotions writer-director Catherine Corsini believes are so adult are clichéd. Still, Scott Thomas is beguiling as usual, the one expected thing that's welcome here
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
40
In any language, the actress (Kristin Scott Thomas) does what she can to best serve her scripts, even when they're hopelessly beneath her.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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14% Negative
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Production Company 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
Release Date Oct 1, 2010
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/leaving
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Awards

Globes de Cristal Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
Evening Standard British Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
César Awards, France
• 1 Nomination

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