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Review 729: The Outrun

  Based on memoir of the same name by Amy Liptrot; After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona (Saoirse Ronan) returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on this journey to recovery. Slowly the beauty and lore of the land enters her inner world and - one day at a time - Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea. Opening with a beautiful wide shot of an Orkney beach, followed by a low angle shot of someone walking on that beach, The Outrun is a grueling and emotionally draining drama that At its core, The Outrun is a film about addiction and how someone can become engulfed by addiction. The film expertly and to unsettling results, the sense of physical displacement and the way in which when physically displaced, it enables a form of recovery.  Rona goes back to nature to fix herself and finds solace in the beauty of nature. The only way to escape from her addiction

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