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The Escape (2017)

Drama | 102 minutes
3,39 9 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 102 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Dominic Savage

Stars: Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper and Marthe Keller

IMDb score: 5,9 (2.602)

Releasedate: 25 April 2018

The Escape plot

"Everyone Is Looking For A Way Out"

Tara loves her children dearly and to everyone around her, her life seems perfect. But Tara feels trapped. She knows that something fundamental is missing. When her friends and family fail to understand her despair, her ideas and feelings cause her to run away and look for a place where she can be herself again. She sets off on a brave and dangerous journey, leaving her husband and her children.

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scorsese

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Good film about a young housewife tired of the daily grind. The camera stays close to the protagonist, who is portrayed excellently here by Gemma Arterton. This results in a poignant portrait of a woman who feels out of place and trapped in the life she finds herself in. Just shy of 4.0 stars, as the scenes in Paris during the second half were somewhat weaker.

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Tara is not happy. Not with her husband, not with her children, not with her house with an extension, not with her daily grind, not with her life. And she has tried to sweep this under the rug for so long that it is beyond repair, and the only way out is an escape.

Gemma Arterton plays that with unimaginable strength, so strength that it is simply unpleasant to watch. How her uncomprehending husband, who loves by his own standards, forces himself upon her, how her children drive her crazy, how every conceivable pleasure she finds is denied her.

It is a shame, though, that Dominic Cooper, her husband, is such an unreal oaf—that detracts from the power of the story for me. That part is just laid on too thick—for us as viewers. But it also serves to indicate that a line has been crossed, and everything he might do will no longer be enough, as is the case when a relationship is essentially already broken but neither of them has made that decision yet.

It's a shame that the ending remains somewhat meaningless. I felt there was more potential there. But the film isn't about that; it's about Arterton's performance, and that is simply phenomenal.

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