Red Road (2006)

Directed by

Andrea Arnold

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 220 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman works as a CCTV security operator in Glasgow. She spots a man she knows from her past on her monitors and becomes obsessed with tracking him.

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What happens

Red Road is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, and Natalie Press. It tells the story of a CCTV security operator who observes a man from her past through her monitors. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road Flats in Balornock, Glasgow, Scotland, which were the tallest residential buildings in Europe at the time they were built. It was shot largely in a Dogme 95 style, using handheld cameras and natural light. The Observer polled several filmmakers and film critics who voted it as one of the best British films in the last 25 years. Red Road was the first film in Advance Party, a proposed trilogy following a set of rules dictating how the films were to be written and directed. They were all to be filmed and set in Scotland, using the same characters and cast. Each film was to be made by a different first-time director. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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