Red Road (film)
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 Film poster for Red Road |
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| Directed by | Andrea Arnold |
| Produced by | Carrie Comerford |
| Written by | Andrea Arnold, Anders Thomas Jensen, Lone Scherfig |
| Starring | Kate Dickie, Tony Curran |
| Cinematography | Robbie Ryan |
| Editing by | Nicolas Chaudeurge |
| Distributed by | Verve Pictures Ltd |
| Release date(s) | 20 May 2006 (Cannes) 27 Oct 2006 (UK) |
| Running time | 113 min |
| Country | UK, Denmark |
| Language | English |
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Red Road is a film set in Glasgow, Scotland, depicting a CCTV operator who observes through her monitors a man from her past. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road flats, which were the highest in Europe at the time they were built [1]. The film is directed largely in a Dogme 95 style, using handheld cameras and natural light, by first-time director Andrea Arnold, who won an Oscar for her short film Wasp.
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[edit] Plot
Jackie (Kate Dickie) is a CCTV operator in Glasgow. She observes the daily activities of the public through a large bank of CCTV monitors, and reports any incidents to the police. One day she notices a man from her past, Clyde (Tony Curran), who was involved in the death of her husband and young daughter several years previous. He has been released from prison and is living at the Red Road flats with his friend and ex-cellmate Stevie (Martin Compston). She continues observing him and begins stalking him, and eventually makes contact. He's attracted to her, and they end up having sex. She then makes a false rape accusation to the police, and he gets locked up because of his prior criminal record. She retracts the accusation, and on his subsequent release from prison, reveals to him that it was her family he killed, in a car crash.
[edit] Cast
- Kate Dickie as Jackie
- Tony Curran as Clyde
- Martin Compston as Stevie
- Nathalie Press as April
[edit] Awards
- 2006 Cannes Jury Prize
- BAFTA Scotland 2006 - Best Screenplay
- BAFTA Scotland 2006 - Best Actress in a Scottish Film (Kate Dickie)
- BAFTA Scotland 2006 - Best Actor in a Scottish Film (Tony Curran)
- BAFTA Scotland 2006 - Best Director
- BAFTA Scotland 2006 - Best Film
- London Film Festival 2006, Sutherland Trophy awarded to "the director of the most original and imaginative first feature film" [2]
[edit] Advance Party
Red Road is the first film in the Advance Party trilogy. This is a set of rules which dictate how the films will be written and directed. They will all be filmed and set in Scotland, using the same characters and cast. Each film will be by a different first-time director [3].
