Leaving

Movie: Leaving

Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi Lopez, Yvan Attal

Genre: romance, foreign

I saw it on: November 21, 2010

Synopsis: This is a French movie with subtitles.  Suzanne (Kristin Scott Thomas) is the wife of a wealthy businessman with political aspirations.  She is bored and has decided to go back to work as a psychotherapist.  To this end, she is having an office built next to her house.  She falls head over heels in love with a workman – and starts down the slippery slope that ruins her life.

My two cents: I usually love anything with Kristin Scott Thomas – but this movie just annoyed me.  The idea that a woman of Suzanne’s age and education would so completely lose control of herself and just walk out on her family was a bit much for me to accept.  It was like she was left with the willpower of a three-year-old or was under the spell of some kind of Svengali.  I know it is just a movie . . . but I could stop thinking that there was no way this woman would really behave like this.