So depressing. But like damn good.

Can't really fault the performances which are compelling, lived in, emotional and truthful depictions of these people. But the writing often borders on melodramatic and chooses cliché devices to forward the narrative. Although the shuffled nature of it is used to good effect at times by cleverly revealing details to illuminate the storytelling experience, it is more often than not a hindrance to the pacing and pathos.

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So depressing. But like damn good.

Она бежала от домашнего насилия, он бежал от себя. Им было суждено встретиться в британском городе Блэкпул, "Северном Вегасе", как не без иронии называл его старик (и в этом смысле русские переводчики неожиданно очень хорошо срифмовали этот фильм с Покидая Лас-Вегас с Кейджем).

Это история о том, как у кого-то вся жизнь впереди, а кто-то, наоборот, хочет оставить ее позади, кто-то полон сил, а кто-то их больше не имеет. И нельзя останавливать кого-либо из них.
В общем, как говорилось в другом очень темном по освещению фильме "Старик умирает… Девочка остается жить. Честный обмен."

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Away is a small film of which absolutely nothing was expected ... and so I was rather surprised by film's when I found myself actually caring a bit about some of these characters.

Timothy Spall (Secrets & Lies) and Juno Temple (Atonement) play a mis-matched pair who stumble upon each other in an hour of need in the seaside town of Blackpool while "on the run" from something from their past. What they have been running from finds them and while neither of them may be able to escape/overcome on their own, they stand a decent chance of doing so together.

Spall and Temple are both rather low-key here and they play off of each other surprisingly well.

A suicidal widower and a abused young women strike up a unlikely friendship while in Blackpool escaping there demons, Decent Brit thriller

A fine British Drama. Great actors.

The plot feels familiar, but the central relationship is really well done. Spall is his usual great self. Juno Temple is the bigger surprise. She shows real depth here & matches Spall in every scene.