Director: Julian Jarrold
Genre: Thriller/
Drama/ Crime
Runtime: 102
minutes
Year:
2009
Starring: Andrew
Garfield, David Morrissey, Sean Bean, Rebecca Hall, Eddie Marsan, Michelle
Dockery
Description: A rookie Yorkshire
journalist (Andrew Garfield) sets out to solve the case of a child murderer.
Review: “Red Riding” is a film trilogy based on a series of books by British
author David Peace. At three-year intervals the books paint a picture of a
thoroughly corrupt police force in West Yorkshire, in the north of England,
during the 1970s and 1980s. Although partly based on fact, the whole concerns a
fictional representation of how Peace himself remembers his childhood in
Yorkshire. The trilogy was made for British television, which aired for the
first time in 2009. The first part is set in 1974.
Eddie Dunford is a young
crime reporter for the Yorkshire Post who yearns for a big break. He starts
working on a case of a number of missing young girls. The deeper he digs, the
more Dunford becomes convinced that the police are withholding information and
that the real estate tycoon John Dawson is involved in the disappearance – and most
likely murder – of these girls. Dunford takes care of the mother of one of the
missing children, but she too knows more than she admits and slowly but surely
the young journalist becomes entangled in a web of betrayal and plots, from
which he sees no way out.
The plot reads like an intriguing
crime thriller and that is how the film can be adequately described. With the
understanding that the resolution of the disappearances is not addressed. The purpose
of the film is more to give an impression of the miserable life in the village
north of England. We get images of Yorkshire that is visually stripped of color.
The dark style of the film is consistently carried through in the
cinematography, therefore the film is really attractive.
It’s quite the slow burn, but
this adds to the atmosphere of the film. And you’re invested enough to want to
see the other two parts in the series.
Rating: 3,5
/ 5
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