RED ROAD (2006)

Cast

Plot

Jackie's job is sitting in front of a bank of TV screens watching the good folk of Glasgow go about ther business. She spies on kids who fight, dogs who walk, cleaners who dance and drunken young couples who grab quickies behind lock-ups. Jackie is depressed, resigned to sadness, damaged, and it won't be till the end of the film that we uncover her past tragedy. Then into her screen steps Clyde, a man we quickly sense is dangerous, a man she starts to flirt with and a man conected to that tragedy. Andrea Arnold's debut is a tour-de-force, a tense, mysterious thriller that feeds you information morsel by morsel.