Leaving (French: Partir) is a 2009 French film directed by Catherine Corsini and starring Kristin Scott Thomas.
Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man hired to do the building meet, the mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all engulfing passion to the fullest.
The film has been warmly received by critics, and currently holds a rating of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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"Leaving (Partir) tells one of the oldest stories in the world as a married woman leaves her husband for the arms of another man. The consequences of her infidelity are less conventional and more intriguing as the aggrieved husband retaliates with a concerted campaign of economic warfare designed to destroy their lives. The combination of the material, a classy cast, sunny locations and passionate sex scenes should make this a very exportable French melodrama especially in territories where it can exploit the welcoming afterglow of Kristin Scott Thomas’s tour de force in I’ve Loved You So Long."
Quoting screendaily.com.