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DEPARTURE

by Andrew Steggall

synopsis

An English family prepare the sale of their holiday home in the South of France. Over one week, the teenage son, Elliot, wrestles with his burgeoning sexuality while his mother, Beatrice, confronts the end of her marriage to his father, who harbours a secret of his own. When an enigmatic local boy quietly enters their lives, mother and son are led to confront each other and their awakening desires. Touched by myth and landscape, Departure narrates the story of the end of a marriage, the end of childhood and the end of an otherwise nuclear middle class family.

international title: Departure
original title: Departure
country: United Kingdom, France
sales agent: Mongrel International (CA)
year: 2015
genre: fiction
directed by: Andrew Steggall
film run: 110'
screenplay: Andrew Steggall
cast: Juliet Stevenson, Alex Lawther, Phénix Brossard
cinematography by: Brian Fawcett
film editing: Dounia Sichov
art director: Marie-Camille Riff-Sbrugnera
costumes designer: Holly Waddington
music: Jools Scott
producer: Pietro Greppi, Cora Palfrey, Guillaume Tobo
production: Amaro Films, Connectic Studio

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