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The Outrun Shows Us Saoirse Ronan at Her Most Transcendent
Director Nora Fingscheidt’s Sundance drama stars Ronan as a recovering alcoholic who’s back in her childhood home in the Orkney Islands.
She then tells us that if selkies are seen by others, they’ll be stuck on land, forever discontent, “because they belong to the sea.” We then see Rona stumbling into an empty bar at closing time, trying to drain the half-finished glasses and bottles strewn about. The film often unfolds in (I’m sorry, I’m gonna say it) intoxicating montages that present elliptical flashes of Rona’s downward spiral in the city — where her addiction destroyed her friendships, her job, and her romantic relationship — and juxtapose them with glimpses of life in the Orkneys. Rona has a degree in biology, and works for a while for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, helping preserve and catalog rare corncrakes, and later researches seaweed, convinced it holds planet-saving qualities.
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