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Leaving (2009) Review

Scott-Thomas gets a chance to expand beyond her normal range of roles, and does so magnificently - here showing how a middle-aged woman can become once again a young girl full of hormonal enthusiams. Frankly it's a delight to see this accomplished actress in a role that permits her to portray a far more passionate and naive character, sex scenes and all.

The plot is basic: woman in a dull marriage falls for a builder, has an affair, confesses to her husband, can't let go of her desire to continue the affair... The point is not the plot but the very human behaviors, reactions, and pain that is consequential to the act. No one escapes unscathed. The movie is like a Dutch painting - everything is finely observed, on a small scale, and intensely human.
There's no point in judging the behavior of the various characters - this isn't a medieval morality play. It's a study of an accidental explosion that occurs in the lives of perfectly normal people living mundane lives. What matters is how accurate, how honest, and how involving the study manages to be. And this study manages to be extremely good indeed. We can watch, knowing that it's all going to end badly yet appreciating the transient pleasure experienced by the lovers even as they destroy those around them. Watching, we can know that thoughtlessness leads too often to low-quality outcomes yet we enjoy the sureness of touch exhibited by the cast and director. We can know that temporary infatuation is no real basis for an adult relationship, yet we can remember our own jeunesse d'esprit from all those years ago - before we discovered that actions inevitably have consequences.
It's sad to watch a grown woman behave in a way guaranteed to lead to ruin, but at the same time it is a fascinating and engrossing spectable. And always performed with fidelity and low-key intensity. So many people in real life make decisions based on what feels easiest rather than on what is right. It's rare to have the opportunity to watch the crash play out in finely detailed slow-motion before our eyes.
While UK films are trending towards ever-greater superficiality and US films become ever more reliant on CGI, the French are - fortunately for anyone who cares about film making - continuing to make little gems like this.

Leaving (2009) Overview

Oscar nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (I ve Loved You So Long, Four Weddings and a Funeral) delivers another acclaimed performance in the passionate drama Leaving. When stay-at-home mom Suzanne wants to return to work, her husband agrees to remodel a garage to serve as her office. Ivan, a sexy Spanish builder, enters their lives and changes them in ways no one could have expected. Suzanne and Ivan are irresistibly drawn together by an erotic passion that threatens to destroy her marriage, her family and everything she holds dear. Her husband will stop at nothing to destroy her first. In this thrilling romance, everyone pays a price for happiness.

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