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Aro Recommended Leaving

 

aka: Partir
France 2009, 85 minutes
Dir. Catherine Corsini
In French with English subtitles
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama / Romance

 

Aroview: Doctor's wife and mother-of-two Kristin Scott Thomas falls unrelentingly for a blue-collar ex-con in this steamy, captivating French melodrama. But breaking out of her idyllic bourgeois existence is fraught with difficulties and disturbing consequences.

The premise of the woman-who-has-it-all throwing it away in the name of passion follows a traditional strand of French cinema, as too does the character's increasingly irrational behaviour. It's testament to Scott-Thomas's calibre as an actress that fans of her French-speaking cinema will forgive not only the film's flaws, but perhaps her moral treachery as well.

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