Red Road film is full of menace and atmosphere

Red Road

Director: Andrea Arnold

Cast: Tony Curran, Kate Dickie, Andrew Armour, Martin Compston

Cert: 18

Poor old Glasgow – as interesting and exciting a city as you could visit – gets the grim up north treatment once again in this gritty and compelling drama.

The story involves Jackie – the wonderful Dickie – whose job scanning CCTVs brings a former relationship with Curran back to life.

She has issues with him and, unwisely, decides to track him down … to the Red Road estate.

Arnold cleverly uses the CCTV as well as the conventional cameras to carry the story along. It is a grippingly tense drama, full of menace and atmosphere as the audience is drawn in as observers of what unfolds.

Star Rating: 4/5