Red Road

Director: Andrea Arnold

2006 / 113min / DCP

Arnold took home the Jury Prize at Cannes with her marvelously controlled feature debut, a tense-to-snapping-point psychological thriller dealing in fatal fixation and revenge fantasies that revolves around the titular Glasgow housing estate where a CCTV operator at a police observation center, Jackie (Kate Dickie), spies a new resident one day in her monitor, and soon disappears down a rabbithole of obsession with his ghostly image… an obsession whose roots go beyond mere voyeuristic fascination. “The queasy mixture of sympathy and curiosity that Red Road evokes is evidence of a talented, risk-taking filmmaker discovering her power… [Arnold’s] deft juxtaposition of sound and silence… adds to the atmosphere of paranoia and dislocation.” —The New York Times

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