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Leaving (2009)
Director: Catherine Corsini
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From Time Out Online
Like a trashy Mills & Boon page-turner tastefully tucked inside the dust jacket of an edgy, cerebral thriller, this cautionary family break-up drama tells us why it's perhaps advisable for married couples to keep separate bank accounts. It sees doting bourgeois housewife KST played for a sap when she leaves her affluent though withdrawn hubby for hot-blooded Spanish ex-con, Lopez. Hoping for a clean break, her numerous attempts to start anew are stymied by her mysteriously clingy and influential spouse as he does his best to make her life a living hell. Scott-Thomas’s hearty turn in the lead and a vaguely right-on feminist agenda give the trashy and totally unfeasible plot at least a mild thematic coherence, but this is nothing more than solidly made fluff.Author: David Jenkins
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Catherine Corsini
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 90 mins
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