The Departure (Le depart)

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  • 1hr 33m

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1hr 33m

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Marc, a car-obsessed hair stylist, is desperate to find a Porsche to enter a professional rally. His frantic search for a vehicle leads him through a series of quirky encounters, eventually forcing him to choose between a car and a girl.

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3.6
  • Jul 12, 2022

    ”A dog is a dog and a car is a car…” I'm convinced this was shot in a week with no real script. Skolimowski simply hired Jean-Pierre Leaud and allowed him to roam free like a rabid dog while capturing some of the most beautiful imagery of the 60s. Leaud goes off the…

    171 Likes
    RasmusS
    RasmusS
    Jan 6, 2021

    JEAN-PIERRE GO VROOM VROOM

    156 Likes
    lisa
    lisa
    Feb 11, 2023

    they got him up to all kinds of shenanigans in this one

    101 Likes
    grid
    grid
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    Jun 13, 2023

    Didn’t know they let twinks drive in france

    91 Likes
    victhevicster
    victhevicster
    Mar 18, 2017

    The signifiers might suggest a Nouvelle Vague romp, but the meanings are pure Jerzy Skolimowski, who in his first film outside of Poland is already doing his number to subvert material expectations. He doesn’t find much freedom in Capitalist France, but an even more…

    79 Likes
    Filipe Furtado
    Filipe Furtado
    Apr 29, 2020

    The most unstable performance in cinema history — at least since James Cagney — belongs to Jean-Pierre Léaud in a Polish-Belgian race-car comedy for freaks that time has forgotten (typical). Every single frame—not even shot!—he is a different person. And that's youth, baby.…

    67 Likes
    Carlos Valladares
    Carlos Valladares
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    Sep 2, 2023

    the plot was so random but jean-pierre is babygirl so it’s all ok

    63 Likes
    lily
    lily
    Apr 13, 2023

    fast cars and 60s France and beautiful people and loose jazz and mirror shots and Jean-Pierre Leaud

    59 Likes
    Tommy
    Tommy
    Aug 26, 2021

    A straight 85 minutes of film carried only by Skolimowski's visuals and Leaud's natural charm. And yes, it shockingly works wonderfully. You really can't expect much from the film; it's synopsis is extremely simple and it's comedy is entirely random. But, accepting the…

    50 Likes
    JustTru
    JustTru
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How long is The Departure (Le depart)?
The movie is 1hr 33min long.
What's The Departure (Le depart) about?
Marc, a car-obsessed hair stylist, is desperate to find a Porsche to enter a professional rally. His frantic search for a vehicle leads him through a series of quirky encounters, eventually forcing him to choose between a car and a girl.