#the outrun

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Truth!

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Saoirse Ronan for Vulture at the Sundance Film Festival (Jan. 19)

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The Outrun (2024)

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Saoirse Ronan at a special screening of ‘THE OUTRUN’ in London.

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Shots of Saskia Reeves in an interview for FormulaTV, shared on YouTube April 8 2022

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The Outrun

2024

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Saoirse Ronan attending The Outrun premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival, 15/08/2024

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Saoirse Ronan in 'The Outrun'

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ok this is most probably for no one but me but this movie looks so specifically catered to me i might have actually just cried a little? it has seals, stormy seas, grey moodiness in cloud form and saoirse ronan. well, i'm seated.

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The Outrun (2024)

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Saoirse Ronan at the "The Outrun" Premiere during the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival

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Hello! Could I ask an icon of Saoirse ronan with the blue hair in the promo pic for the outrun please?

I only found this one so I hope this is what you wanted <3

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starring Saoirse Ronan

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The Outrun: Review

Saoirse Ronan proves a force of nature

There are plenty of films about the cyclical nature of addiction, where moments of hope are snatched away by painful relapses. But few films capture the essence of being an addict as convincingly as The Outrun, in which setting and sound design are about as key as the story. Portraying alcoholism as a suffocating cacophony of noise, it’s an immersive way into this powerful true-life story.

Drawn from the memoirs of Amy Liptrot, we follow Rona (Saoirse Ronan), an alcoholic biology grad who starts the film at rock bottom. Booted out of a pub for drunken disorder, she lands herself a black eye and a real wake-up call to get her life in order. This leads her to leave the noise of London to recover at her home in the Orkney Islands, where she joins up with her long-suffering mother (Saskia Reeves), and watches over her father (Stephen Dillane), who struggles with mental health issues of his own.

As you can expect, her road to recovery is anything but straightforward. But rather than opting for a linear structure, writer-director Nora Fingscheidt makes the shrewd decision to frame Rona’s bumpy journey by flashing between two different time periods. A breath-taking early sequence in a club shows how Rona falls in love with her then boyfriend (a charming Paapa Essiedu), before her illness slowly and heartbreakingly takes its toll. There’s an undercurrent of threat as the camera shakily homes in on her drunken outbursts and the hurtful comments she makes while under the influence.

These emotionally charged flashbacks show the painful impact that alcoholism has on her relationships in the past, while weighing her down with sorrow in the present. That these potentially jarring time jumps work so well is testament to incredible work from Ronan (also a producer on the film), whose courageous performance will have you invested throughout. Ronan has always been a capable actress, but here she plunges an unseen range of authentic emotional depths – this character really goes through a lot. One scene where she goes from drunkenly abusing her mother to tearfully apologising is genuinely devastating. She’s backed up by terrific performances from Reeves and Dillane as parents going through very different challenges.

In a script that mostly strays from cliché and sentimentality, Fingscheidt refreshingly lets the sense of place do the talking. There’s a real juxtaposition between the noise and chaos of the life she leaves behind, and the healing tranquillity of the natural landscape, where Rona has some agency over her life. It’s here that the film finds moments of relief – after all, what’s more healing than the sight of some seals bobbing their heads in the water?

Moving, inspiring and frequently upsetting, The Outrun beautifully explores the challenges of addiction and mental illness, with a career-best performance from Saoirse Ronan.

★★★★

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Saoirse Ronan attending The Outrun premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival, 15/08/2024