Andrea Arnold
Scotland | 2005 | 113mins | 35mm | Colour
Jackie works as a CCTV operator for Glasgow council. Daily she watches over a small part of the world and takes seriously her duties to protect the people moving about in her monitors. Jackie steers clear of involvements with anyone and has life sorted in a way that suits her. Her life has an order, a calm, she has orchestrated it to be this way because in the past Jackie has known the greatest pain a human can know. Then one day a man appears in her monitors, a man she thought she would never see again or want to see again. Now the opportunity presents itself, she is compelled to confront him.
Red Road is part of a low budget, three-feature film concept ‘Advance Party’ developed as part of Lars von Trier’s experimental project The Advance Party.
Sensual and dark in every sense – Variety
Arnold delivers a chilling mood piece that makes good use of all-round impressive performances and some haunting locations. – Time Out
Prix du Jury – Cannes Film Festival, 2006 |
