http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/2007/02/03/red-road/ A Deviant View of Cinema - Film, DVD & Book Reviews Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:28:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/2007/02/03/red-road/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Ellie Kent Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:09:24 +0000 http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/2007/02/03/red-road/#comment-4 What I liked about Red Road was that it was a bit like a really grim 'Purple Rose of Cairo'. Where in the Woody Allen film Mia Farrow stepped into the rose-tinted world of an escapist 1930s adventure caper and cavorted around tweely with the dashing male lead, here Kate Dickie steps into the bleak reality of a Glasgow estate that she has been watching on the screens of the CCTV operating room, and has an unsettling relationship with an ex-convict. I wonder if Arnold thought of that... What I liked about Red Road was that it was a bit like a really grim ‘Purple Rose of Cairo’. Where in the Woody Allen film Mia Farrow stepped into the rose-tinted world of an escapist 1930s adventure caper and cavorted around tweely with the dashing male lead, here Kate Dickie steps into the bleak reality of a Glasgow estate that she has been watching on the screens of the CCTV operating room, and has an unsettling relationship with an ex-convict. I wonder if Arnold thought of that…

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