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Red Riding: 1974

United Kingdom

2009

102 Min
Color
English
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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DIR Julian Jarrold

PROD Wendy Brazington, Andrew Eaton, Anita Overland

SCR David Peace, Tony Grisoni

DP Rob Hardy

CAST Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey, John Henshaw, Anthony Flanagan, Rebecca Hall, Peter Mullan, Sean Bean

MUSIC Adrian Johnston

Telluride, AFI FEST, !F Istanbul (Fantastic Films), Transilvania (Special screening)

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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Julian Jarrold

Julian Edward Peter Jarrold, born 1960 in Norwich, Norfolk, is a BAFTA Award-nominated English film and television director.

He is a member of the family which founded Jarrolds of Norwich in 1823 and was educated in Norfolk at Gresham’s School, Holt. He now lives in North London. —Wikipedia 

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Some Wouter

20Mar13

Such a bleak story, but what beautiful shots!

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Christopher M. Jones

3Oct12

Park Chan-wook meets Sidney Lumet. If that doesn't turn you on you're dead to me.

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Ace Craven

10Sep12

A sleepy mess of a story. "They got sunshine down south." Makes you feel lost. Makes ya wonder what's going on. Makes ya wish the guy'd just buy a gun. Some excellent images but overall the characters are just too frustrating. Hey, at least there's vindication.

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Christopher Taylor

13Aug12

With it's deviations into lyrical imagery and the excellent visual poise, it's story is remarkably simple and lacking some of the staples of the procedural. That being said, it isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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DVDs and More Festival Anticipation

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

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"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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Film Comment, Chopin, Oscars

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

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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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