Seeing Red (1992)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Virginia Rouse

Writer:

Roger Pulvers (writer)

Plot:

Seeing Red is a mystery, a comedy with an undercurrant of terror, about the expose of scandal in big business transactions and how a three year-old boy and his father lost each other. |

Cast

Tony Llewellyn-Jones	...	Duncan Banks
Anne-Louise Lambert	...	Amanda
Peta Toppano	...	Vivien
Zoe Carides	...	Red Sessions
Henri Szeps	...	Louie Leeds
George Spartels	...	Mark
Hugh Llewellyn-Jones	...	Hugh Banks
David Wenham	...	Frank No 2
David Field	...	William
Anthony Wong	...	Nyguen
Jean Heard	...	Clarice
Peter Sumner	...	Gorman

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Company:

Goomerah Films

Strange mix of genres....

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SEEING RED is definitely not suited to all tastes - whether it's suited to any taste at all is the question. At no point in the first forty-five minutes does the film grab your attention; rather, it chops and changes among multitudes of new characters linked by several sub-plots which you may or may not notice, depending on how hard you listen, or when you got up to make a hot chocolate. One might even use the word "boring" to describe this approach. However, by the end of the film, we've suddenly had a child kidnapping (in addition to several other kidnap "attempts"), a political blackmail, and an artist's spectacular journey of self-discovery that will see her do the unthinkable... The film was never going to be any semblance of a commercial success, due to the director's very different way of constructing it. However, the performances are good and very genuine, and the humour works well (particularly Szeps, from MOTHER AND SON and the political thriller EDGE OF POWER, who is a harassed publisher); most of all, though, the story is actually very powerful, but only if you let it be. I'm giving it 6/10 with the knowledge that, as more and more people see it and rate it, its average user rating will drop to 3 or 4. If you liked it, you should also see CITY LOOP (2000), FRESH AIR (1999), AMY (1998) and BEDEVIL (1993).