DEPARTURE
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 |