THE OUTRUN Movie - "Bringing The Outrun To Life" Featurette | STUDIOCANAL - Director Nora Fingscheidt, writer Amy Liptrot and more discuss bringing THE OUTRUN to life. Starring Saoirse Ronan and based on the best-selling memoir – don’t miss it in UK cinemas now and coming to Germany December 5. - Plot Synopsis: Saoirse Ronan stars as Rona, who, fresh out of rehab, returns to the Orkney Islands; a place both wild and beautiful right off the Scottish coast. After more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona – now 30 – attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.
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00:00We started with Orkney being sort of gray and bluish and a bit bland, you know, she
00:07doesn't want to be there.
00:09Whereas London, where she's longing to be, is bright and fun and colorful and vivid and
00:15moves around and then through time the London memories get more distorted and weird and
00:23ugly and broken.
00:25And in that time, you know, Orkney opens up and gains color and becomes vivid.
00:32And so they sort of do a crossover.
00:34And in addition to those two layers, we have the nerd layer, which is her inner life, which
00:39is completely sort of anarchic.
00:41It's free, you know, it's like documentary, animation, found footage, whatever, it can
00:46be whatever, because her brain is free in that sense.
00:51Most of it always starts, for me, with the question of how does the character see it?
00:55It's always clear, you know, that this film needed to be an audiovisual experience, that
01:01you experience Rona's state, you know, her drunkenness, her delirium, her messiness,
01:07but also the ecstasy, but also the nature, not just in a sweet and nice way, but in an
01:14extreme way.
01:15And you experience this with her, through her eyes and ears, you sort of get an understanding
01:20of when does the film need to be loud, when is it quiet, when does the sound sort of need
01:26to get broken, you know?
01:28And how long do we have to hold off the wind, so that really, you know, surrounds us when
01:34she takes her headphones off.
01:42Yeah, I think Nora is an incredibly courageous director and a brave director.
01:47She never shies away from the hard wretches, but she always brings a lot of beauty and compassion.
01:54We did a lot of just talking about alcoholism and my life.
01:59The book is very much an internal story, and she did so well with System Crasher that we
02:04thought she'd be really appropriate for this film.
02:07It was her vision for the outrun, the different layers of storytelling, her desire to remain
02:14faithful to the spirit of Amy's book, and also the respect that she showed to the real
02:20people and the real places, and all of that just made me completely certain that she was
02:24the perfect director for the outrun.