Movie
Leaving
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2009-08-12
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Pyramide Productions, Camera One, VMP, Solaire Production
- Country
- France
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Kristin Scott Thomas as Suzanne
- Sergi López as Ivan
- Yvan Attal as Samuel
- Bernard Blancan as Rémi
- Daisy Broom as Marion
- Aladin Reibel as Dubreuil
- Alexandre Vidal as David
- Berta Esquirol as Berta
- Gérard Lartigau as Lagache
- Geneviève Casile as La mère de Samuel
- Philippe Laudenbach as Le père de Samuel
- Michèle Ernou as Mme Aubouy
Crew
- Catherine Corsini - Director
- Gaëlle Macé - Screenplay
- Catherine Corsini - Screenplay
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