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The Escape
Gemma Arterton delivers a moving performance as a mother in the grips of an emotional terror in writer-director Dominic Savage's sensitively handled drama. Tara (Arterton) lives on a housing estate in Kent with her businessman husband Mark (Dominic Cooper) and two young children (Teddy Pender, Florrie Pender), whose boisterousness and occasional tantrums keep the doting mother on edge. Tara is unfulfilled and searches for joy in the possibility of art classes but her husband is unsympathetic to her depression and her mother Alison (Frances Barber) repeatedly reminds Tara how fortunate she is to have a stable life. As the pressure builds, Tara walks out on her family and impulsively buys a Eurostar ticket. She heads to Paris to view close-up a tapestry called The Lady And The Unicorn from one of her art books. A handsome visitor called Philippe (Jalil Lespert) takes an interest in Tara and they spend a magical day together, which offers the mother an emotional release from the stresses that await her back in Kent.
