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Leave One Day

Leave One Day

Drama · Comedy · Music · 2025

Cécile is about to open her own gourmet restaurant, finally making her dream come true, when suddenly her father has a heart attack and she is called back to the village where she was born. Far from the hubbub of Paris life, she runs into her teenage crush. The memories come flooding back, destabilizing her certainties.

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Leave One Day

2025 Drama · Comedy · Music 1h 38m

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6.3 / 10

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Cécile is about to open her own gourmet restaurant, finally making her dream come true, when suddenly her father has a heart attack and she is called back to the village where she was born. Far from the hubbub of Paris life, she runs into her teenage crush. The memories come flooding back, destabilizing her certainties.

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Directed by

Amélie Bonnin

Written by

Amélie Bonnin · Dimitri Lucas

Juliette Armanet

Juliette Armanet

Cécile Béghin

Bastien Bouillon

Bastien Bouillon

Raphaël

François Rollin

François Rollin

Gérard Béghin

Tewfik Jallab

Tewfik Jallab

Sofiane

Dominique Blanc

Dominique Blanc

Françoise « Fanfan » Béghin

Mhamed Arezki

Mhamed Arezki

Heddy

Pierre-Antoine Billon

Pierre-Antoine Billon

Richard

Court is in session

Put Leave One Day on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.