Films From Other Countries

Watching films from other countries in their original language can be a great mind exercise.   It also opens delightful new doors to other cultures.

This French film is rated as very good by our critic, Neptune Ingwersen.

PARTIR ***1/2   (vo French)

How does one justify or explain a driven love that annihilates everything in its path?

It’s a drama that has been repeated through the ages and has yet to be comprehended after such luminaries as Sophocles or Shakespeare have probed and tried to digest its force. Here we have a film by Catherine Corsini set in the south of France, about a comfortable bourgeois couple with two adolescents. And then the wife, played by the always excellent Kristin Scott Thomas, falls madly in love with the hired handyman (the gentle Catalan actor, Sergi Lopez). The rest of this powerful story is for you to discover…

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