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May 20, 2016 · An English mother and her teenage son spend a week in the South of France breaking up a summer home that has become one of the casualties of the boy's parents' crumbling marriage. Matters only become more complicated when an enigmatic local boy enters their lives.
- (2.8K)
- Drama, Romance
- Andrew Steggall
- 2016-05-20
Departure: Created by Vince Shiao, Malcolm MacRury. With Archie Panjabi, Mark Rendall, Kris Holden-Ried, Karen LeBlanc. A high-octane conspiracy series that follows the mystery of Flight 716 - a passenger plane that vanishes over the Atlantic Ocean.
- (17K)
- 2020-09-17
- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- 45
Aug 17, 2020 · When passenger plane Flight 716 shockingly vanishes over the Atlantic Ocean, brilliant investigator Kendra Malley (Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife) is brought in – alongside her mentor Howard ...
- 1 min
- 306.6K
- Peacock
Departures (Japanese: おくりびと, Hepburn: Okuribito, "one who sends off") is a 2008 Japanese drama film directed by Yōjirō Takita and starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, and Tsutomu Yamazaki.
- Something New?
- An Uneven Mix
- Identity Crisis
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On paper, this sounds incredibly conventional. Homosexuality is tackled frequently in coming-of-age cinema. I mean, Moonlight is the talk of the town right now, and even Blue is the Warmest Colour doesn’t feel all that long ago. It becomes evident very early on in Departurethat it needs to do one of two things: it either needs to break the mould an...
For all of the film’s solid moments, though, it doesn’t take long before something else rolls around that offsets what worked and pushes Departureback into unstable territory. It repeatedly returns to the same piano melody between scenes, and the result is more irritating than melancholic. Characters frequently give in to clichés: Elliott runs his ...
Where Departure‘s biggest issues lie, though, are in its confusion as to what it really wants to be. The film skips over any awkwardness between Elliott and Clément, they become friends immediately. It’s a nice little twist on the norm but it ultimately sacrifices character development on Elliott’s part – there’s little growth to him across the fil...
There’s unfortunately a lot wrong with Departure. Its visual metaphors are flimsy, its characters are lacking in the growth the film requires of them, most of the emotional moments fall flat, and the film itself suffers from a severe case of identity crisis. Lawther, Brossard and Stevenson give good performances, but they unfortunately can’t save D...
Departure is a 2015 film about a young man who falls in love with a local boy in France. The film struggles to balance the coming-of-age and family drama genres, and suffers from clichés, metaphors and confusion.
When a marriage deteriorates, an English family prepares to sell its holiday home in France.
- (15)
- Drama, LGBTQ+
Departure is a 2015 English-French independent coming-of-age romantic-drama film, written and directed by Andrew Steggall in his feature directorial debut. The film stars Juliet Stevenson, Alex Lawther, Phénix Brossard , Finbar Lynch, and Niamh Cusack.
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