Leaving

France   Kristen Scott Thomas

There have been many films made about the agony of divorce...this may be the nastiest.

A 40 yo woman, married twenty years, with two teenaged children falls in love in a big way with a tradesman working on her property. She abandons her family, friends, alienates everyone in her life in as extreme an example of amour fou as I’ve ever seen. There’s no let-up...the intensity of her obsession carries all to destruction.

KST carried the whole film and she was believable all the way but it was impossible to like/admire her. By the end (which was carried to its logical extreme) I just wanted to get away from this fool. Strong stuff. No fun to watch.

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