Departure Page #2

Synopsis: An English mother and 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.
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Director(s): Andrew Steggall
  3 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
UNRATED
Year:
2015
109 min
388 Views


OK.

I've made you hot chocolate.

They used to make epaulettes

in the village, for the shoulders.

[IN FRENCH] For soldiers.

is very soft, it's very pure.

It's good for the fabric.

Did you know that?

No, but it's the same water

in the barrage.

Yeah.

But you just said the water is dirty.

Well, maybe it wasn't before.

But it is now. That's why they stopped.

Oh.

Here.

- Thank you.

- Yeah.

- You swim?

- Yes.

- In the reservoir?

- Yeah.

Must be cold.

Hmm, to begin.

After... it's like fire, you know,

in the skin.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

We never swam in the reservoir.

We... I don't know why.

I think it's not allowed.

But we walk round it.

It's very beautiful.

I used to swim.

In the sea.

Philip, Elliot's father, had a boat,

and I'd dive off.

- Didn't I, Elliot?

- ELLIOT:
What?

Dive, from the boat?

And you'd cry.

I think he thought maybe

I'd not come back up.

It's fine, we'll do it.

- What was she saying?

- About swimming.

[IN FRENCH] Idiot!

- [IN FRENCH] Did you buy it?

- No, I found it.

It was in the hangar.

On its own. I took it.

make it work?

Yeah, maybe.

(MUTTERS)

OK.

- [IN FRENCH] Is that all?

- Yeah, thanks.

[IN FRENCH] My parents are limited.

It's like they're dead.

(GOAT BLEATS)

I want to show you something.

Clment.

Clment?

Clment.

- Whoo!

- You idiot.

CLMENT:
Attends, Elliot.

- Let's go.

No, no, come on.

You bring me here.

I "brought you here",

not I "bring you here".

Happening once,

not continuously or often.

CLMENT:
Quoi?

It's just grammar.

I want to be a writer.

OK, cool.

So...

My parents bring me here

most years in the summer.

[IN FRENCH] Here?

Not here. To the house.

I come here...

...to get away from the house, from them.

To think.

[IN FRENCH]

You're a bit of a clich. The poet.

- (COUGHS)

- (LAUGHS)

Not bad. Watch me. Like this.

Very good.

(COUGHS)

(CLMENT LAUGHS)

Soldier?

a va?

Elliot!

CLMENT:
Rimbaud.

Proust.

- You've read Rimbaud?

- [IN FRENCH] No, he's a fag.

- [IN FRENCH] Him too?

- He wrote Les Mis.

[IN FRENCH] You're a bit queer.

[IN FRENCH] It's slang. Forget it.

OK.

[IN FRENCH] It's normal.

[IN FRENCH] With a carrot up your arse.

[IN FRENCH] Nothing.

He had to wait, Victor Hugo,

till his mother had died

to be with the person he loved.

[IN FRENCH] See you tomorrow.

[IN FRENCH] From the poet? No, thanks.

[IN FRENCH] Can you come tomorrow?

CLMENT:
If you want.

(SOBS)

- Where have you been?

- I walked back with Clment.

- You've been smoking.

- No, I haven't.

- It stinks.

- No, it doesn't.

- BEA:
It's disgusting.

- God.

- What is wrong with you?

- Nothing.

- Get out. Just get out.

- (LAUGHS)

Get out.

- Go! Get out!

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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