Escape is a 2024 thriller film written, edited and directed by Rodrigo Cortés, based on the novel of the same name by Enrique Rubio [es] and starring Mario Casas and Anna Castillo.
The plot follows N., a broken young man hellbent on living in prison.
[1] Escape entails Cortés' return to Spanish-language filmmaking after his 2007 debut feature The Contestant.
[7] Escape was presented at a RTVE gala held at the Kursaal Palace during the 72nd San Sebastián International Film Festival.
[1][11] Javier Ocaña of El País found a connection to the likes of Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Enrique Jardiel Poncela, and Antonio Orejudo, and wrote about a "formidable" first hour, and an "excessively diluted" second hour.