Official Trailer
Our Review
- Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Stephen Dillane, Lauren Lyle
- September 27th 2024
- Nora Fingscheidt
Saoirse Ronan plays a recovering addict who leaves her life in London behind and returns home to Orkney.
Saoirse Ronan needs to prepare herself for another Oscars campaign thanks to her performance in The Outrun.
The drama, based on Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir of the same name, tells the story of Rona (Ronan), a young woman who leaves behind her life in London and returns home to her family on the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland to try and get sober.
While it has narrative issues holding it back from being truly great, The Outrun is still a remarkable showcase of Ronan’s talents. The 30-year-old already has four Oscar nominations under her belt and this drama is highly likely to bring her a fifth.
She delivers an understated but powerful portrayal of a recovering alcoholic trying to get clean and put her life back together.
Because the film jumps around in time, we get to see many different versions of Rona, from the violent drunken monster to the quiet, isolated former addict, and Ronan gets to show off her range.
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