The movie tells an admirable and moving story about a woman coming through her troubles, but it conveys no sense of creative or emotional risk.

Saoirse Ronan “really fell in love with how Amy [Liptrot] wrote about her home, how poetically she described her memory of growing up in the Orkney Islands, and balanced that so beautifully and so effectively with the raw honesty of her struggle with addiction.

The crashing of waves, the somber recrimination of chilly charcoal clouds: for the young woman at the center of this story, Rona—played, in a marvelously nuanced performance by Saoirse Ronan —these are both markers of time and reminders that sometimes it’s necessary to temporarily drop out of time,

In the opening of The Outrun, a young woman named Rona (played by four-time Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan) shares the legend of the selkie. Through a dreamy voiceover, she explains how these mythological shapeshifters of the sea could come ashore at night,

Saoirse Ronan says it was vital that her new drama “The Outrun” remained true to the memoir it’s based on by Amy Liptrot. Liptrot captured her life as she moved to an extremely remote, tiny island in Scotland to try to maintain her sobriety after reaching rock bottom in her life.

An alcoholic (Saoirse Ronan) returns home to Scotland's Orkney Islands and achieves sobriety in nature's solitude.

Re-recording mixer Gregor Bonse and supervising sound editor Dominik Leube tell IndieWire about using sound to bring disparate spaces — including its protagonist's emotional turmoil — to life.

Saoirse Ronan drives home a gripping portrait of alcoholism in "The Outrun," which continues at Ragtag Cinema.