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  • Actors: Kate Dickie, Natalie Press, Tony Curran, Martin Compston
  • Directors: Andrea Arnold
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Verve Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 19 Feb 2007
  • Run Time: 110 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000J20BFI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,838 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Synopsis
Jackie works a job that many would find dull; she is a CCTV operator but one that gets a perverse kick out of watching others going about their everyday business; that is until a day in which a man appears on her monitor: A man from her past and one that she never wanted to see again. Now she has no alternative but to confront both the man, and the demons inside herself.

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‘Riveting revenge drama is this week’s must-see movie’(4 'dogs')

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not many films manage to be both tender and sinister at the same time..., 15 May 2007
By Jaybird (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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but this film does.

Red Road is the story of Jackie, played by the extraordinary Kate Dickie in a restrained and sensitive performance, which is all the more powerful for its understatement.

Jackie is a lonely CCTV operator, watching over the streets of Glasgow like a guardian angel, trying to stop people coming to harm. She comes to know some of her "regulars" by their habits, although they don't know her, or the affection that she feels for them.

Outside of work, her relations with real, flesh and blood people, appear less successful. She rarely goes out and is having an affair with a married man that is distant, cold and demonstrative only of how badly Jackie feels about herself.

One day Jackie sees someone from her past on camera, someone she cannot forget, so she starts to watch him.

This is a quiet film, keenly observed and deeply felt; an extremely rewarding watch.

Red Road is part of a collaborative series of films, organised by Lars von Trier, whereby each of the film makers involved agreed to be constrained by a set of rules, one of which was that all the films in the collaboration should share a cast and that therefore all the casting for all the films had to be done at the same time and collaboratively between the teams.

Despite this, none of the actors appear miscast, all of them give finely nuanced performances. The only way that the audience could possibly tell the method of casting is that there seems to be an intimacy between the cast that perhaps points to a longer term involvement than is often seen.

That intimacy is supported by the nature of the film, its themes of love and loss, pain and comfort.

Completely wonderful.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing film, 2 Jul 2007
A very cleverly constructed film. As other reviewers have mentioned, it takes a while to get going. The director plays with our perceptions of what is happening and about 2/3 of the way through the whole tone of the film appears to change, when we realise that things might not be quite as simple as they appeared. Whilst trying not to spoil the plot, this means that the viewer might see events in the film in a new light. Some of the sex scenes are quite explicit. These can also be seen in a different context when all is revealed towards the end of the film.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A slowly unfolding story. , 2 Jun 2007
By Bluebell (UK) - See all my reviews
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Very slowly the reason for Jackie's stalking of of ex-con Clyde is revealed. These two characters are excellently portrayed: both have complex personalities and motivations. The long delay before one begins to realize what drives Jackie's obsession makes the first half or more of the film a bit difficult to understand, but the film-maker maintains a sense of tension and menace that keeps the viewer watching.

Life in high-rise, council-housing estates in Glasgow is bleakly and realistically depicted. This aspect of the film reminded me of the film Train-spotting. Despite being Scottish I found quite a bit of the speech of the subsidiary characters unintelligible-maybe that's because I'm from Edinburgh! I needed sub-titles, particularly for Clyde's violent flat-mate.

It's not a happy film, but a good one, that leaves one moved by the characters' dismal lives.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Red Road is a Scottish film
Red Road is a Scottish film. Revel in those words - they don't follow one another in that sequence very often. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mister Hobgoblin

5.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE SPOLIERS IN OTHERS' REVIEWS!!!!
Red Road is a brilliant, emotionally draining piece of work. It doesn't need any nore kudos from me to secure its reputation. Read more
Published 3 months ago by GODFREY HAMILTON

2.0 out of 5 stars Been done before
Its a ok movie if you have nothing better to do.Very thin plot and not unlike some old eastern block movies.
Published 4 months ago by N. Tate

4.0 out of 5 stars Yet more proof that brains trumps budget
As some others have said, this makes most of Hollywood's output look very, very shallow.

I haven't seen the short that won the director an Oscar, but she shows a... Read more
Published 4 months ago by lovingboth

3.0 out of 5 stars Moving revenge story
I would not have bothered with this film if it had not been for reading the reviews on the Internet. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Peter Wade

3.0 out of 5 stars A short film about Scotland
Interesting film but hardly original. The filmmaker has clearly seen and fallen for the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski, especially 'A Short Film About Love'. Read more
Published 4 months ago by 72trails of smoke

5.0 out of 5 stars True Grit
A fantastic film that had myself and a group of friends guessing throughout and lots of food for thought afterwards. The quality of the acting was superb as was the pace. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Alan Pottinger

2.0 out of 5 stars A manipulative and dishonest movie.
This is one of the most dishonest and manipulative movies I've seen in a long time, a surprise considering its Dogma associations. Read more
Published 15 months ago by S. J. Williams

5.0 out of 5 stars Slow burning movie
Forget the over hyped Shane Meadows and make way for Andrea Arnold. Red Road is a laconic, psyhilological thriller about a woman who works in CCTV surveillance whose eyes rest... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Brendan O. Clarke

4.0 out of 5 stars True Glasgow Grit
Wow - once you've seen it; a film you can't stop thinking about. Jackie seems quite a hapless mundane character at first but then you discover the reason for her switching off... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Escoces

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