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Red Road (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 81

Fresh: 72

Rotten:9

Average Rating: 7.4/10

Consensus: Red Road director Andrea Arnold skillfully parses out just enough plot details at a time to keep the audience engrossed in this seductive thriller.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins

Genre: Thriller, Vengeance, Theatrical Release, Love

Theatrical Release:Apr 13, 2007 Limited

Synopsis: Developed at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival, Red Road is a bristling, atmospheric thriller that rumbles with... Developed at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival, Red Road is a bristling, atmospheric thriller that rumbles with intensity.

In the squalor of urban Glasgow, Jackie (Katie Dickie) works at a video-surveillance firm that is in charge of protecting people who live on a single block of Red Road. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again. That man is an ex-con named Clyde (Tony Curran). Clearly shocked to see him free from prison, Jackie begins stalking Clyde, compelled to confront him for his crimes. What mysterious history do they share, and why is Jackie so determined to punish this man? Filmmaker Andrea Arnold keeps the audience guessing and the tension building as Red Road crescendos to an explosive finale.

After three acclaimed shorts, including Wasp, which won the Sundance Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking and the Academy Award, Red Road marks Arnold's highly anticipated feature debut. It was constructed within the framework of Lars von Trier's experimental Advance Party project, the first of three films set in Scotland, by three different directors, using the same nine characters. Masterfully crafted, Red Road gets the project off to a stirring start.
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Starring: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, Natalie Press

Starring: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, Natalie Press, Paul Higgins, Andrew Armour

Director: Andrea Arnold

Director: Andrea Arnold
Screenwriter: Andrea Arnold
Producer: Carrie Comerford
Studio: Tartan Films

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

Sets a chilling downer mood that gets under your skin like few films ever do.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/14/08
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Ancorado pelas performances complexas de Dickie e Curran, o filme traz a diretora estreante Andrea Arnold como uma revelação a ser observada com atenção nos próximos anos.

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01/08/08
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Unfortunately, its superb performances and assured camerawork are overwhelmed by dubious psychology and a clichéd climax.

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10/26/07
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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10/12/07
Sydney Morning Herald
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A brilliantly conceived thriller that keeps us guessing right up to the very end, Red Road intrigues but frustrates by its slow development and often incomprehensible Scottish dialogue

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10/05/07
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Urban Cinefile

A strange sort of map of the city [is] spread across these fragmented cubes of visual information. And there's also the metaphorical map of the characters' lives, where they're coming from and where they're going.

Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) | comment Comment
09/20/07
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

I like that you're never sure where this road is going to lead.

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07/09/07
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

Like the Peeping Tom-paranoia of similar recent films Disturbia and Civic Duty, this finely crafted debut feature by Scottish writer/director Andrea Arnold packs a wallop.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
06/29/07
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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Red Road is an atmospheric little thriller made up of equal parts paranoia, loneliness and anxiety.

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06/29/07
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

The glacially paced film is tersely episodic, and scenes are thrown onto the screen like jagged bits of raw meat that have been torn from a bone.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
06/28/07
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

It’s a jarring sensation, for a thriller not to be about the chase, or the mysterious force of evil lurking in the shadows, but about an intangible gulf dividing two people occupying the same room.

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06/27/07
Steven Snyder
Zertinet Movies

Though it's paced as a thriller, the film ultimately emerges as a haunting exploration of how grief can weigh on us, and the depths to which it can drive us.

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06/22/07
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times

An impressive debut that is orchestrated with a deep, underlying tension that never lets us guess what will come.

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06/21/07
Paula Nechak
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

I couldn't get this film's quiet power out of my mind.

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06/21/07
Gina Carbone
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
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06/16/07
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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A must for movie lovers who want to see how so much drama, mystery and emotion can be created from so little.

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06/16/07
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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It should be noted that Red Road contains one extremely graphic sex scene. But like much else that transpires in Red Road, what is seen is not always what it looks like on the surface.

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06/15/07
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

some may find the denouement a tad sentimental, but it is a long, dark and twisted journey that takes us there, scrutinising the shadier contours of human loss and guilt like a grainy face on a screen.

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06/13/07
Anton Bitel
Channel 4 Film

For a voyeuristic medium, this tale of a voyeur does a poor job of prying into its own protagonist's life.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
06/01/07
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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