Red Road, 2006 (Grade B)

Director: Andrea Arnold

any awards? recognized at  Toronto Film Festival; Sundance and won 2006 Cannes Jury Prize

Cast: Kate Dickie; Tony Curran; Martin Compston; Natalie Press; Paul Higgins; Andrew Armour

sez says:  In this slow moving thriller Jackie (Kate Dickie) uses her job as a security surveillance monitor to zoom in on her little corner of Glasgow, Scotland, via cameras placed throughout the city. Her narrow and depressed life is swamped by obsession when one evening she sees a familiar face: Clyde (Tony Curran), a man who figures prominently in a dark episode of Jackie's past. We watch as she circles round him and the pain he is associated with, until in the end she faces a decision: will she remain captive to the desire for revenge or find release in some kind of forgiveness...all of which is done while her libido simmers.

I like this movie and I liked its ending but be warned:  It doesn't have any 'fast action' and could be hard on folks who want to see a story unfold a fast pace.--and I do have one complaint: the ascents are too hard to understand by us American-English speaking folks-- it needs subtitles.