Red Riding: 1974
United Kingdom
2009
102 Min
Color
English
Synopsis
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.
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pivic
17Oct11
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.
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Stephen Campbell
5Sep11
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
Noiresque
12Aug11
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.
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By David Hudson on August 31, 2010
Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times on The Red Riding Trilogy: "From one film to another — 1974, 1980, 1983 — stories overlap, contexts shift
"Promised Lands," "Red Riding," "Eyes Wide Open," More
By David Hudson on February 5, 2010
Winter wears on, and again, most of the more interesting openings of the week are local, beginning, almost inevitably, New York. Michael
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By David Hudson on January 10, 2010
"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
The Auteurs Daily: Telluride and NYFF. Red Riding
By David Hudson on September 5, 2009
Back in March, the UK's Channel 4 broadcast a three-part series based on four books by David Peace known as the Red
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The film cannot decide whether it's a crime drama or social study
By Henrik Schunk on January 17, 2012
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
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