Leaving

What a strange experience. We go and see this movie, expecting your basic run-of-the-mill French drama but after a while it became a Mystery Science Theater experiement. Which didnt bother the other patrons because we were the only two in the theater. The film starts off logically but little by little, with the downward spiral of the leading lady, the whole affair became evermore outlandish, even comical, leaving us to mock the incredible loss of reality by Suzanne played by KST. The movie is clearly a tragedy but Suzanne sinks to such depths so quickly and so unrelenting that we were reduced to sarcastically jabbing back at the screen as the story wildly unfolded. If you want to watch a woman determedly careening her life over the cliff this is an excellent portrayal but at the same time it was all so ridiculously hard to sympathize with.      11/14/10