Sarah Prefers to Run

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Audience Member Chloé Robichaud est une excellente réalisatrice, j'ai adoré la bande-sonore du film, les silences qui en disent plus que les dialogues, les hauts et les bas d'une athlète, ça inspire beaucoup ce film. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Refus des clichés, jeu des acteurs impeccable. La course sert ici de métaphore pour la fuite en avant du personnage principal. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Not at all what I was expecting, but I enjoyed this. Really good performance from Sophie Desmarais. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Sarah is a 20-year-old girl who loves to run and moves to Montreal to make the big athletics league. Her life outside of running, however, is a little trivial as she constantly alienates herself from her friends and her mother. This is particularly true in the case of her relationship with Antoine, with whom she moves to Montreal and gets married for no other reason but to claim financial incentives. Sarah Prefers to Run is literally a film about a character who prefers running over everything and in the process becomes a film about giving up on love, life and even happiness to feed into her idea of ethereal happiness. Robichaud is particularly brave in making a number of interesting anti-cinematic choices that in fact go against the traditional representation of human sentiments on the big screen whether it is through Sarah's own passive nature or the awkward sexual chemistry she shares with Antoine - especially in a particularly uneasy and almost darkly comical sex scene. Though in the grand vision of the film everything makes sense, Robichaud's film can't escape or shake off a feeling of pretentiousness and superficiality which will leave some members of the audience feeling totally cold - as cold, in fact, as Sarah herself seems to be towards human connection. Sarah Prefers to Run mixes a valid mixture of honesty and metaphor, presented in a Dardenne Brothers' type of visual realism, presented through an original compelling story and a captivating character study. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member At times captivating, Sarah Prefers to run can be thought provoking, funny and an emotional roller coaster. However it is not without its flaws. To keep it simple, the film is confusing. Unnecessary motifs, bizarre character choices routed in nonsensical logic and even confusions in plot (possible lesbian love story) left me begging for this film to have been edited in a clear, concise manner to give everyone watching a deeper understanding of the universal message the film tries to put forward Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member Je n'ai pas détesté SARAH PRÉFÈRE LA COURSE, mais en même temps je ne l'ai pas nécessairement aimé.... Les acteurs jouent biens, sans plus. L'histoire est intéressante, sans plus.... J'ai eu à peu près la même émotion au générique de début qu'à celui de la fin.... Une sorte de neutralité mêlé à de l'indifférence. Dommage. Le sujet est intéressant, mais quelque chose dans le rendu m'a empêché d'entrer dans l'histoire. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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