The first entry in an ambitious, dark, and thrilling trilogy of interlinking films set in Yorkshire in the 1970s and 80s. 1974: Yorkshire – a time of paranoia, mistrust and institutionalized police corruption. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit that characterizes a police investigation into a series of child abductions.
Sadly not as good as its cinematography which is pretty. If only this film were tightly directed with a good lead player and better writing to boot, it could have been excellent! All in all: disappointing.
Having read David Peaces excellent novels i had my heart in m mouthnwhen i heard Channel 4 were doing 3 of them . I need not have worried thanks to a brilliant cast and Tony Grisonis script this exceeded my expectations and then some
The weakest of the three. The messiest script (seriously, the Sean Bean character? And seriously, Sean Bean? I love him, but he was way miscast) and the awfulness of Andrew Garfield's hair, Rebecca Hall's Acting With A Capital A, and most of all, the only film to have a hack director. But none the less, it's always worth a look.
Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times on The Red Riding Trilogy: "From one film to another — 1974, 1980, 1983 — stories overlap, contexts shift
Winter wears on, and again, most of the more interesting openings of the week are local, beginning, almost inevitably, New York. Michael
"Tony Grisoni adapted 1974 [directed by Julian Jarrold] from the first novel in David Peace's Red Riding Quartet, named for a Grimm's fairytale
Back in March, the UK's Channel 4 broadcast a three-part series based on four books by David Peace known as the Red
Despite all the hype surrounding this trilogy, I was disappointed by the first film in the series. It feels forcefully gritty, which works fine against the grim backdrop of backwater England in the… read review