RED ROAD
synopsis
Jackie works as a CCTV operator for Glasgow council. Daily she watches over a small part of the world, takes seriously her duties to protect the people moving about in her monitors. Jackie steers clear of involvements with anyone, has life sorted in a way that suits her. Her life has an order, a calm, she has orchestrated it to be this way because in the past Jackie has known the greatest pain a human can know. Then one day a man appears in her monitors, a man she thought she would never see again or wants to see again. Now the opportunity presents itself, she is compelled to confront him.
| international title: | Red Road |
| original title: | Red Road |
| country: | United Kingdom, Denmark |
| sales agent: | Trust Film Sales |
| year: | 2005 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Andrea Arnold |
| film run: | 113' |
| release date: | UK 27/10/2006, FR 06/12/2006, NL 01/02/2007, SE 09/02/2007, IT 30/03/2007, BE 04/04/2007, DK 29/06/2007, ES 13/07/2007, PL 23/11/2007, HU 03/01/2008 |
| screenplay: | Andrea Arnold |
| cast: | Natalie Press, Danny Dyer, Martin Compston, Kate Dickie, Tony Curran |
| cinematography by: | Robbie Ryan |
| film editing: | Nicolas Chaudeurge |
| art director: | Helen Scott |
| costumes designer: | Carole K. Millar |
| producer: | Carrie Comerford, Gillian Berrie, Sisse Graum Olsen |
| production: | Sigma Films, BBC Films, Zentropa Entertainments |
| backing: | UK Film Council, Scottish Screen, Glasgow Film Office, National Lottery |
| distributor: | Verve Pictures, Fandango (IT), Strada (GR), A-Film (Benelux), Golem (ES), Equation (FR), Prisvideo (PT), Cirko Film (HU) |
