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The Escapees

1981 · 107 min Drama Crime
4.4 / 10 · TMDB

On the run from an asylum for the insane, two girls embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title Les Paumées du petit matin
Year 1981
Country France
Genre Drama, Crime
Director Jean Rollin
Runtime 107 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.4/10 (19 votes)

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The film constructs its narrative as a series of anxious and sensual episodes, relying on the contrast between the fragility of the heroines and the roughness of the world they enter. It explores escape not as a physical act, but as an existential condition.

What lingers after viewing is the melancholic and tense atmosphere of the road, where beauty neighbors ugliness and liberation borders on a new form of dependency. A haunting balance on the edge of a breakdown remains. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Jean Rollin

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