LEAVING

Now that Suzanne’s two children are teenagers she decides that she wants to start working again as a Reflexologist and start her own Practice up at home in Nimes (South of France).  Her husband hires Ivan a handsome Spanish handyman to fix up the outbuildings she is going to use but he turns out to be handy in other ways too, and soon he and Suzanne are having a wee torrid affair.

She may be married to a Frenchman but Suzanne is a Brit by birth, and we are a nation that feels obliged to tell the truth even when its not called for.  She spills the beans to her priggish and rather cold Doctor husband which doesn’t go over too well (!) so like a lovelorn young girl she runs off with her hairy hunk to live happily ever after that is until Hubby stops her allowance, freezes her bank account and cancels her credit card and makes life generally too difficult.

R.T.V. This movie could have been easily dismissed as just another clichéd chauvinistic love story that went wrong and ill served by a mediocre script BUT it does one remarkable ace that makes it a very watchable film i.e. Miss Kristin Scott-Thomas giving her all as Suzanne.  Even if this light fare she still shines.