2009 · drama · romance · music
Leaving
Directed by Catherine Corsini1h 25m2009
A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.
Our read: Leaving (2009) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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