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Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Andrew STEGGALL
Writer(s) : Andrew STEGGALL
Cast : Juliet STEVENSON, Alex LAWTHER, Phénix BROSSARD, Finbar LYNCH, Patrice JUIFF, Niamh CUSACK

Producer(s) : Guillaume TOBO (Connectic Studio), Pietro GREPPI (MGP ltd), Cora PALFREY (Amaro Films)

SCREENING 19 May 2017 - 3.30 pm - Palais Lumière (H)
A mother and her teenage son spend a week packing up the contents of the family’s remote holiday house in the South of France. Sixteen year old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. In the near-by village a touring theatre prepare their play based on the myth of a water-nymph who yearns for love. While Elliot seeks out the identity of a strange “figure on the landscape”, an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly compels both mother and son to confront their needs and, finally, each other.
Departure is an intimate story beginning at dawn on the first day and ending at night on the sixth, charting the end of a summer, the end of a childhood and the end of an otherwise nuclear, middleclass family.