Red Road (2006)
Directed by Andrea Arnold
Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.
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What critics compared Red Road to
The way Glazer films "Under the Skin," it's a blend of gritty neorealism in the vein of Andrea Arnold's films, particularly "Red Road," and modestly scaled, elegantly wrought fantasy.
A smart, uncompromising director, several of her films - "Red Road," "Fish Tank" - focused on Great Britain's underclass, and disaffected youth.
Those who know the films Arnold made in her native Britain, including “Red Road” and “Fish Tank,” may be reminded of the lush streak of animal symbolism that has coursed through her work since her Academy Award-winning 2003 short, “Wasp.”
Arnold comes to America after three films that explored a more native and personal form of picaresque, the byways of English passion; though even those movies — Red Road, Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights — had a flair and impetus beyond the norms of Cinema Blighty.
For me, however, this is Arnold’s best work since her 2006 feature debut Red Road , an electrifying odyssey which mixes the vérité grit of Ken Loach’s sociopolitical parables with the awestruck natural beauty of Terrence Malick’s rural cinematic dreams, all filtered through the eyes of an irrepressible heroine whose experiences are at once singular yet universal.
British writer-director Andrea Arnold’s impressively stylized, no-budget U.K. work in Fish Tank and Red Road centred on inscrutable young women vaguely responding to larger forces.
This is the first American film by Arnold, the British director who made Wasp and Red Road and Fish Tank — three brilliant films in the social-realist tradition, one of which happens to be among my favourite films of all time.