Andrew Armour, Andy Armour, Kate Dickie
Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought s...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 28, 2007
Stats: 654 reviews
A great Glasgow set thriller with noir elements and nods to Hitchcock's Rear Window. It's also heavily influenced by the Dogme style of film-making - it breaks far too many of the rigid 'anti-cinematic' rules of that style of film-making to be called a true Dogme film. Thank God!...( read more)
Loved the pace, acting, direction, but the story seemed inadequate to justify all the tension leading up to its revelation. I'll watch it again just for Kate Dickie's tough performance and ignore the story.
Another film that falls into the 'dark and disturbing' category. This one is from Scotland, and is basically the story of a woman named Jackie (Kate Dickie), who works for a security company, where her job involves watching a bank of video monitors all day. If the film is to be b...( read more)
A very courageous film, and one that succeeds on many of the points that it aims to touch. Obsession, indescribable pain, alienation are themes that are taken and played on, to eventually get on a path to a seemingly unlikely redemption. Some may think it gratuitously graphic and...( read more)
É um bom filme, porém muito lento (o que não deixa de ser proposital, porque é um filme bem realista e triste), mas faltou um sal.
A very good and powerful film, reminiscent of the Three Colors trilogy. It moves very slowly for much of its length, gradually building in suspense, but the ending brings it all together nicely. It also has one of the steamiest sex scenes I have seen. The haunting remake of Jo...( read more)
An overtly pornographic five minutes ruins what is otherwise an intriguing and unsettlingly quiet film with the brilliant Tony Curran.
This isn't Big Brother, it's Little Sister, and maybe more dangerous for that. full review
[Director Arnold] drops the voyeurism theme almost entirely, a bait-and-switch that doesn't cripple Red Road so much as snip off its richest and eeriest thread. full review
A hypnotically absorbing suspense story in the Patricia Highsmith mold, Red Road draws us in with doom-laden images of high-tech voyeurism before pummeling us with shock twists. full review
The queasy mixture of sympathy and curiosity that Red Road evokes is evidence of a talented, risk-taking filmmaker discovering her power.
By limiting our entry into Jackie's headspace, Red Road feels disingenuously committed to sympathetically portraying her situation, partly using her circumstances as pretense for narrative suspense. full review
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