World cinema classics #52, 53 and 54

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Red Road trailer

I watched the 2006 British film Red Road yesterday evening. The film felt like reading a nouveau roman: no interior nor exterior monologue whatsoever (by that I mean an almost wholly depersonalized narration), the story is revealed through images and short pieces of dialog and benefits from having no prior information of the plot. The film is very reminiscent of that other little gem, Intimacy , but also of Haneke’s Caché because of its intense claustrophobia and manic voyeurism.

As far as my interest in prurience goes, Red Road had everything I had found lacking in Lust, Caution.

Michael Dwyer notes:

“There are shades of Michael Haneke‘s best work about this often unbearably gripping psychological thriller. It is as frank in its sexual candour as in its scenes of unflinching violence, and it offers no soft dramatic compromises.”

Red Road is World Cinema Classic #52, Caché #53 and Intimacy #54.

7 thoughts on “World cinema classics #52, 53 and 54”

  2. Vedran

    I saw it last year in Muhka_media. I wasn’t completely satisfied. When I left my seat I found it being an OK movie, and when I was on my way home I came tot the conclusion that it missed IT. It being the thing that makes a difference between a good movie and a great movie.

    I mean don’t get me wrong beautiful psychological interaction between protagonist and the antagonist, and the urban scenery and shots were beautiful. But it didn’t think WOW this is something totally new. It is a big twist on an old story but with alot more depth.

    It is a good not great movie. Atleast that’s my opinion.

  4. Vedran

    Glad you asked, people could interpret it wrong. What I mean by “big twist on an old story” is the very obvious underline of Revenge. The fact that people can’t let the past go or atleast they can’t let it go when they have to face it. I did’nt mean “big twist on an old story” as something negative although when i reread my sentence it does come out quite negative. It is just that I love it when I see a movie and I can’t put in to a ‘box’ with that I mean an usual theme.

    By the way: What I found superb is the symbolism attached to her job. She guards and maintains control in a certain neighborhood. So she maintains the stability in that neighborhood. While her own life is unstable.

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