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The Escape

2017

Dominic Savage

Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Frances Barber, Marthe Keller ...

5.4

563

Drama Tara (Arterton), a housewife and mother in suburban London, is living a life that is no longer hers: it belongs to her loving but overworked and self-absorbed husband (Cooper), her young son and daughter and the numbing routine of housework and childcare. In desperate need of a change, Tara one day makes a bold decision. Armed with a one-way ticket to Paris, she leaves everything behind to rediscover herself in a new city.

	Author	Review
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Beautifully played (...) The film poses existential questions with an unblinking, Bergmanesque intimacy (...) Cooper's performance is thrilling in its complexity"	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Subtle and slow and wrenchingly empathetic (...) Its very uncertainties, expressed with piercing honesty, reel you in"	POS
United States	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"[An] intimate, deeply emotional drama (...) Daring and harrowing (...) Tara's claustrophobic world and increasingly checked-out mindset feel undeniably authentic"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Gemma Arterton shines (...) Despite a low key approach, this is a compelling, sometimes wrenching drama."	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Bolstered by Gemma Arterton’s unvarnished, affecting lead turn (...) Savage’s film thoughtfully and credibly outlines the conflict between a superficially abundant lifestyle and overwhelming internal lack."	POS

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