Leaving (2009)
Directed by Catherine Corsini
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.
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How many versions of Lady Chatterley have we encountered since D.H. Lawrence gave birth to her in his famously scandalous 1928 novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”?
Shepard, a graduate of The Groundlings improve troupe, Mike Judge's Idiocracy, and MTV's Punk'd, has a comic's timing that combines well with his Bruce Dern-style physicality.
Cowriter (with Gaëlle Macé, "A Common Thread")/director Catherine Corsini has overcooked an amour fou that is just too fou, given a trashy beach read the art house treatment all gussied up with three good actors and Agnès Godard's typically stunning cinematography.
Like the bourgeois adultresses played by Diane Lane in "Unfaithful" and Tilda Swinton in the recent "I Am Love," Suzanne is leaving a life of comfort.