Just caught the first screening of Red Road [siff] at the Harvard Exit tonight and thought I’d pass along a quick last-minute recommendation before the Saturday afternoon (1:30 pm) showing has come and gone. The film opens with Jackie (Kate Dickie), a young widow, surveying a Glasgow neighborhood through dozens of police cameras. In her total information awareness post she occasionally strays from alerting the police of trouble on the street to briefly engage herself in the small domestic dramas playing out on the sidewalk. Soon, she notices a familiar but unwelcome character and the tension slowly ratchets like a giant coil tightening until the eventual explosive breaking point. Although the plot unfolds gradually, each scene raises the stakes and I was in suspense most of the time wondering just where the revenge plot was heading.

If you do miss the afternoon screening, the film is scheduled to make it back to one of the Landmark cinemas in mid-June. In heavily-Scottish inflected english, with subtitles.

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1. SIFF watch : the Police Inside and Out
2. SIFF Recommendations: May 26-May 29
3. Sharing the road
4. siff: erik nietzsche the early years
5. Films4Families, Saturdays at SIFF Cinema