Monday, 22 March 2010

Red Road

Andrea Arnold, 2006

Having seen the superb Fish Tank, I went back and got her other feature film. And it readily stands alongside.

Rather like the Mike Leigh slice-of-life films, it's a harsh emotional landscape of contemporary Britain, realistic, and yet with an almost unbearable tension sustained. Andrea Arnold is a serious talent.

Shot on a bottom of the pile Glaswegian tower block estate, the cow count is predictable.

No cows.

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