On the Run

Name: On the Run
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: January 30, 2004
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Catherine Frot, Dominique Blanc, Gilbert Melki, Lucas Belvaux, Ornella Muti

2004

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: January 30, 2004 | Unrated

Starring: Catherine Frot, Dominique Blanc, Gilbert Melki, Lucas Belvaux, Ornella Muti

Summary: This taut thriller in the crime/gangster tradition is the first segment of the unprecedented trilogy of films from Belgian actor/director Lucas Belvaux.

Director: Lucas Belvaux

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 117 min

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Michael Wilmington

The sheer stark speed and measured violence of On the Run catch us up quickly--and the film becomes a searing portrait of a killer-idealist lost out of time. Read full review

Scott Tobias

A taut, diamond-cut piece of storytelling. Read full review

Desson Thomson

The most cinematic of the three films. It tells its story in stark, often wordless scenes. Read full review

Anthony Lane

What we glean from Belvaux's trilogy is the reassurance (rare on film, with its terror of inattention) that people are both important and unimportant, and that heroes and leading ladies, in life as in art, can fade into extras before our eyes. [Note: From a review of the entire trilogy.] [2 February 2004, p.94]

Premiere Aaron Hillis

What On the Run has going for it: solid acting, taut editing, smartly economical dialogue, an elevatingly reverberant score, and a rousing vitality that left me salivating for The Trilogy in full. Read full review

David Sterritt

Belvaux tells this seamy story with great energy, and gives an all-stops-out performance in the leading role. Also fine are Catherine Frot as Bruno's former girlfriend and Dominique Blanc as the addict. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

The least appealing of the trilogy. Read full review

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