An update of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Catherine Corsini’s Leaving sees Kristin Scott Thomas (I Loved You So Long) in yet another of her trademark complex adult performances as Suzanne, a repressed woman whose comfortable middle-class life is shattered by her attraction to builder Sergi Lopez (Pan’s Labyrinth).
As her family disintegrates around her, with her children taking sides and her husband revealing a cruelty which takes her aback, Suzanne finds herself and her lover crushed by the economic reality of life on the breadline.
Emotionally engaging, yet resisting sentimentality or unnecessary melodrama, Leaving makes a powerful companion to I Am Love.
