Saudi Runaway

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Saudi Runaway

2020

1h 28m

Documentary

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A young woman in Saudi Arabia reckons with her upcoming arranged marriage and a life controlled by her father. Using her cellphone to secretly document her claustrophobic existence, she risks everything to plan her flight to freedom.

Guy Lodge

Variety

06/23/2020

"Saudi Runaway" is a product of extraordinary trust on the part of both filmmaker and subject - not that such a distinction feels entirely right, given how much filmmaking the latter performs on her own.

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Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

02/27/2020

3.5/4

Camera, character, and cameraperson are one throughout, and the effect is exquisitely suffocating.

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Sheri Linden

The Hollywood Reporter

01/27/2020

[A] lean documentary that offers an insightful, first-person look at a culture that, as Muna puts it in her astute voiceover narration, is caught between tradition and modernity.

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Joseph Fahim

Middle East Eye

07/09/2021

Meures gives no information regarding the cultural, social or economic background of her protagonist, who gradually transpires into no more than a wannabe Instagram star striving for the western dream.

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Redmond Bacon

Cultured Vultures

02/26/2020

7/10

While dragging a little in the middle, it is a fascinating portrayal of survival, and hopefully a precursor of a female-led revolution against all places still stuck in the stone age when it comes to women's rights.

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Janet Lee

Film Inquiry

02/11/2020

Rooted in humility, Saudi Runaway intelligently navigates the meaning of choice, independence, risk, and fear in the life of a Saudi Arabian woman.

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Susanne Regina Meures

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Christian Frei

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Synopsis

A young woman in Saudi Arabia reckons with her upcoming arranged marriage and a life controlled by her father. Using her cellphone to secretly document her claustrophobic existence, she risks everything to plan her flight to freedom.

Director: Susanne Regina Meures
Producer: Christian Frei
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Arabic
Runtime: 1h 28m