Review of Red Road (2006) by Marli S — 19 Jan 2010
Andrea Arnold took the Oscar for her short film wasp, and 'Red Road' would be the debut feature length film. The film is a gritting low budget brit film based in murky Scotland, which bagged the director the Cannes Jury Prize in 2006. There is a lot of talent obviously from Arnold.
'Red Road' Follows a CCTV worker Jackie who catches a face on one of the camera which brings back torment and anger for Jackie, reasons that are at the time unknown. This appearance releases a series of bizarre behaviour by Jackie to track down the man in the video.
A strong central performance from Kate Dickie is the centre piece here, and a number of other supporting roles that come in strong support.
The direction and script is strong, but the pace of the film can be seen as a problem, at nearly two hours the film can be seen to take to long to get to a resolve, there are interesting character studies with Jackie and a number of other characters.
Still although a satisfying ending, it takes a long winded way to get there. A few shaping with the editing would have made for a much tighter less baggy film.
Still except a lot from Andrea Arnold in the future.
This review of Red Road (2006) was written by Marli S on 19 Jan 2010.
Red Road has generally received positive reviews.
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