The Outrunto be reborn
With The Outrunan intimate drama resolved in a return to the profound forces of nature, Saoirse Ronan offers a great new performance and tries her hand at producing for the first time. For this story of the fight against addiction and rebirth, an actress of her caliber was needed. Indeed, in its structure as in its flesh – a young Scottish woman, drowned in her excesses, returns to her native island to rebuild herself – the story of The Outrun First of all there is nothing particularly original or spectacular about this.
Centered on the protagonist, Rona, the camera and narration follow her movements and psychological wanderings as faithfully as possible. The editing is therefore not simply linear, with a back and forth between his London life, made up of dancing crowds, love and excess, and his solitary retreat in the Orkney archipelago, almost at the end of the world. There he occasionally visits his father, a bipolar pastor who is also addicted to alcohol. She also meets, in reverse, her mother, totally versed in religion to keep her husband and daughter’s troubles at bay.
Along this simple line, and despite the beautiful photography which pays homage first and foremost to the violence of insular nature, the scenery of The Outrun at times it becomes boring, programmatic, until Rona’s brief but inevitable relapse into alcoholism. From this moment, the dramatic climax of the story, something clicks and Rona finds a way out through the mystery of these islands of living mythology. And with violent painting, images of Orkney nature like Rona’s become different.
Saoirse Ronan sublimates conventions
In a moving encounter with the telluric forces of nature, the monstrous power of the sea, the majesty of the sheer rocks, the screams of the wind that takes everything away, Saoirse Ronan creates a character whose particular problems (her family, her loneliness , its dependence) to discover its universality and its humanity. A young woman finally freed from others and from herself, who is reborn in the world to be as close as possible to it, at her own pace, and finds in this obvious world the proof of her existence.
Saoirse Ronan, masterful from start to finish, both in crisis and calm, gives herself without counting. She practices a real birth, bathes in ice-cold water. He falls, gets hurt, gets up, screams, cries and laughs. Without her, The Outrun may be just another recommendable adaptation of struggling young woman writer Amy Liptrop’s memoir. With the Irish-American actress more in the running than ever to finally win the Oscar for Best Actress, it’s a touching story that touches the heart deeply.
The Outrun by Nora Fingscheidt, in theaters from October 2, 2024. Above is the trailer.
Source: Cine Serie
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