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  • Pathé
  • 1 h 55 m
  • Pathé
  • 1 h 55 m

Summary Laurent (Jérémie Renier), a police officer in a small town in Normandy, plans to marry Marie, with whom he has a daughter. Then one day, his life is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a farmer threatening to commit suicide.

Directed By: Xavier Beauvois

Written By: Marie-Julie Maille, Frédérique Moreau, Xavier Beauvois

  • Pathé
  • 1 h 55 m
  • Pathé
  • 1 h 55 m

Drift Away

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
55
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Summary Laurent (Jérémie Renier), a police officer in a small town in Normandy, plans to marry Marie, with whom he has a daughter. Then one day, his life is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a farmer threatening to commit suicide.

Directed By: Xavier Beauvois

Written By: Marie-Julie Maille, Frédérique Moreau, Xavier Beauvois

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
55
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80% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
55
20% Positive
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80% Mixed
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0% Negative
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67
Mar 4, 2021
Xavier Beauvois has made a film that contemplates trauma of one’s own making, a perceptive work that grapples with guilt and grief.
By Ed Frankl FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 2, 2021
Beauvois brings everything together in the movie’s final minutes, although it’s hard to shake the feeling that Drift Away has dodged what should have been its central social concern. Renier, a former child actor who began his career a quarter-century ago in the Dardenne brothers’ “La Promesse,” only gets better with age.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 2, 2021
Starting sedately but promisingly, it sails (literally, in one respect) into a perfect storm of heavy-handed symbolism and sentimentality.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 2, 2021
A film deeply rooted in a close-knit community, with excellent performances, a sophisticated control of narrative tempo and – at least initially – a tragic force that could almost be compared with Elia Kazan.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 2, 2021
Here the burn can be too slow to handle at times, as if the gas had been forever left at medium-low heat. You're ultimately left wanting more from a movie that tries to drift away from the usual policier template, even though shots are fired and bodies drop.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Les Films du Worso, Pathé, Orange Studio, France 3 Cinéma, Scope Pictures, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, SofiTVciné 7, Cinécap 3, Indéfilms 8, Cinémage 14, Cinéventure 5, Région Normandie, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, SCOPE Invest
Duration 1 h 55 m
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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