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Kate Dickie,
Kate Dickie,
Tony Curran,
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Andrea Arnold,
Andrea Arnold,
Andrea Arnold
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: Not Rated
: Tartan Video
: Independent, Suspense/Thriller, UK
: 110 min.
: English
: English, Spanish
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A woman paid to watch others begins stalking one of the men she's been trailing in this thriller from Scotland. Jackie (Kate Dickie) is a woman who has buried herself in her work with a security company since the death of her husband and child. Jackie's work involves monitoring a crime-ridden corner of North Glasgow with a bank of closed circuit television cameras; after her shift is over, she either goes home or has an occasional assignation with a friend from work who isn't happy with his wife. While watching the comings and goings in a run down apartment block, Jackie spies Clyde (Tony Curran), a handsome former jailbird who shares a shabby flat with his buddy Stevie (Martin Compston) and April (Natalie Press), Stevie's girlfriend. Jackie becomes fascinated with Clyde, and after carefully following his routines through her cameras she meets him face to face at a local bar, and soon lures him into a relationship. However, in time Clyde discovers neither love nor lust is the motivating factor behind Jackie's actions. The first feature film from award-winning director Andrea Arnold, Red Road received its world premier at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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by MKaliher
November 8, 2008 - 7:42 PM PST
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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Directors Andrea Arnold and Lone Scherfig have captured superbly the predicament of both the victim of crime and the repentant criminal in this suspenseful, shockingly honest, yet compassionate film. How did they pull it off? Corrections bureaucrats, many of whom are also women, have spent billions of dollars trying to implement what the criminal justice field calls "Restorative Justice," but director Arnold--with a little help Scherfig, director of the tender gem Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself)--nailed it on a budget with this remarkable film.
If you have ever been a victim of crime, or tried to comfort a victim of crime; if you have ever been a convict, or tried to help a convict come to terms with his or her past behavior and successfully reenter society; this is a film you must see. Arnold and Scherfig have accomplished something truly remarkable: understanding both the victim and the criminal, bringing them to some kind of reconciliation, granting the victim compassion and some measure of closure, and giving the criminal--along with an awareness of the grief his behavior has wrought--a measure of forgiveness, and permission to move on, more thoughtfully, with his life.
This is the first, and only, film I have rated a "10" for Green Cine, but to give it anything less would be an injustice. What's it about? It's too complex and rich to describe. A synopsis would be an equal injustice. Let's just say this is one of those rare, unnoticed films we all come across every decade or three that demands we tell all our friends about it. Director Arnold's achievement here is exceptional. But the performances of Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, and Martin Compston, as well as the cinematographer and the film editor, are equally outstanding.
NOTE: I found it easier to decode the actors' brogue with the aid of English subtitles. But, hey, that may be a personal problem. |
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