Red Road (film)

Infobox Film
name = Red Road

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caption = Film poster for "Red Road"
director = Andrea Arnold
producer = Carrie Comerford
eproducer = Gillian Berrie, Sisse Graum Olsen
aproducer =
writer = Andrea Arnold
starring = Kate Dickie, Tony Curran
fight choreography = David Goodall
cinematography = Robbie Ryan
cinematography = Robbie Ryan
editing = Nicolas Chaudeurge
distributor = Tartan Films (USA)
released = 20 May 2006 (Cannes) 27 Oct 2006 (UK)
runtime = 113 min
rating =
country = UK, Denmark
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:348252
imdb_id = 0471030

"Red Road" is a 2006 British/Danish film directed by Andrea Arnold. It tells the story of a CCTV security operator who observes through her monitors a man from her past. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road flats in Glasgow, Scotland which were the tallest residential buildings in Europe at the time they were built [ [http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/springburn/springher/springher17.htm Red Road Flats] , Glasgow Digital Library] . It is shot largely in a Dogme 95 style, using handheld cameras and natural light.

"Red Road" is the first film in "Advance Party", a projected trilogy following a set of rules dictating 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 made by a different first-time director. [http://www.vervepics.com/docs/rrnotes.pdf]

Plot

Jackie (Kate Dickie) is a security camera operator in Glasgow. She observes the daily activities of the public through a large bank of video monitors, and reports suspicious incidents to the police. She's clearly troubled by something in her past, and barely goes through the motions of day-to-day life.

One day she notices a man from her past, Clyde (Tony Curran), 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 is 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 jail, reveals to him that it was her husband and young daughter that he killed several years prior in a car crash.

Cast

*Kate Dickie as Jackie
*Tony Curran as Clyde
*Martin Compston as Stevie
*Nathalie Press as April

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" [http://www.iofilm.co.uk/festivals/london/2006/matt_lff2006wrap.php]

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0471030|title=Red Road
* [http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=518225E41b7152557ByUj29DA7EF British Films Catalogue]
* [http://www.festival-cannes.fr/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4359479 Cannes Festival]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5000720.stm Cannes director urges CCTV debate]
* [http://www.sigmafilms.com/film.php?f=22 Sigma Films]
* [http://www.vervepics.com/redroad.shtml Verve Pictures]
* [http://filmmakermagazine.com/webexclusives/2007/04/red-road.php Interview with Andrea Arnold and Kate Dickie, Filmmaker Magazine Web Exclusives]
* [http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=4683 "Red Road"] at sundance.org

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title=Jury Prize, Cannes
years=2006
before="Shanghai Dreams"
after="Persepolis"
tied with "Silent Light"