Red Road

“Developed at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival, RED ROAD is a bristling, atmospheric thriller that rumbles with intensity.

“In the squalor of urban Glasgow, Jackie (Katie Dickie) works at a video-surveillance firm that is in charge of protecting people who live on a single block of Red Road. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again. That man is an ex-con named Clyde (Tony Curran). Clearly shocked to see him free from prison, Jackie begins stalking Clyde, compelled to confront him for his crimes. What mysterious history do they share, and why is Jackie so determined to punish this man? Filmmaker Andrea Arnold keeps the audience guessing and the tension building as RED ROAD crescendos to an explosive finale.

“After three acclaimed shorts, including Wasp, which won the Sundance Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking and the Academy Award, RED ROAD marks Arnold's highly anticipated feature debut. It was constructed within the framework of Lars von Trier's experimental Advance Party project, the first of three films set in Scotland, by three different directors, using the same nine characters. Masterfully crafted, Red Road gets the project off to a stirring start.” (Sundance Film Festival catalogue)

“It's dynamite, the kind of sexy, paranoid, creepily atmospheric picture that invades all your senses at once.” (salon.com)

“Andrea Arnold’s RED ROAD, from her own screenplay, is the director’s remarkable feature-film debut after three internationally well-received shorts, Milk (1998), Dog (2001) and Wasp (2003).” (Andrew Sarris, New York Observer)

“The queasy mixture of sympathy and curiosity that RED ROAD evokes is evidence of a talented, risk-taking filmmaker discovering her power.” (A.O. Scott, New York Times)

“A sexy and cunningly disorienting thriller that provokes the viewer into a state of anxious participation from first to last frame.” (Jan Stuart, Newsday)

“Spellbinding.” (Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times)

“A tense and provocative thriller.” (Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter)