Red Road (2006)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Andrea Arnold

Writers:

Andrea Arnold (writer)
Anders Thomas Jensen (characters)

Release Date:

27 October 2006 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him. |

Plot Keywords:

Cctv | Scotland | Cunnilingus | Safe Sex | Bird

Awards:

21 wins & 7 nominations

Cast

Kate Dickie	...	Jackie
Tony Curran	...	Clyde
Martin Compston	...	Stevie
Natalie Press	...	April
Paul Higgins	...	Avery
Andrew Armour	...	Alfred
Carolyn Calder	...	Cleaner
John Comerford	...	Man With Dog
Jessica Angus	...	Brownyn
Martin McCardie	...	Angus
Martin O'Neill	...	Frank
Cora Bisset	...	Jo
Charles Brown	...	Broomfield Barman
Annie Bain	...	Aunt Kath
Frances Kelly	...	Woman in Denim Skirt

Runtime:

France:113 min (Cannes Film Festival) | USA:113 min

Country:

UK | Denmark

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:18 | Ireland:18 | Netherlands:12 | Italy:VM14 | USA:Unrated | Australia:R | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:R21 (cut) | France:U (with warning) | New Zealand:R18

Filming Locations:

Barmulloch, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

Company:

Advanced Party Scheme

Trivia:

Red Road is the first of three films made at the behest of The Advance Party, a Danish project inspired by Lars von Trier, who challenged Arnold and two other new directors to create films with the same group of characters.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The video screens in the surveillance centre do not show the date and time, which would severely limit their usefulness as filmed evidence in real life. The date and time have clearly been disabled to avoid continuity errors in filming. The 'shadow' of the numbers is however visible.

Quotes:

Clyde: [seeing Jackie for the first time] Have we met?
Jackie: Yeah, I saw you at a cafe.
Clyde: Right. At a cafe.
[Clyde takes Jackie's hand and they both start to dance]

Movie Connections:

Followed by Rounding Up Donkeys (2009)

Soundtrack:

Morning Glory

Great Story

Lead actors were very convincing and natural, I'm guessing a few of the small parts were played by non actors which i love and thought it added even more authenticity, the inner city settings and photography were gritty and real, an area which had obviously been excluded in so many ways and that grim reality was truly captured by the film. Story kept me guessing all the way through which i like, i did think i had the plot figured out at one point but i was way off the mark. Loved the general pace of the story and the fact that the script was so honest and uncompromising. I also enjoyed the more general theme of our living in a society in which we are being watched constantly without our knowledge and the privacy questions that generates. Highly recommended.