Red Road is a solid psychological thriller. It's Andrea Arnold, so it's atmospheric and very well made, with intriguing lighting and photography throughout. I really loved the acting too. Kate Dickie and Tony Curran are both excellent, and a young Martin Compston is so great. The film wants - in addition to being a thriller - to be about forgiveness and letting go and other things, but I think Red Road succeeds much more on its generic terms than it does on its philosophical ones.
I watched this movie, like Coma and Water Lilies before it, because it was about to get removed from the Criterion Channel, but Andrea Arnold is an excellent filmmaker, and so watching this was a must.
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