Red Road (2006)
Red Road (2006) 5/10
Like Eye in the Sky, this is also a ’surveillance’ movie. And while Red Road has been critically lauded, i did not enjoy this film. The technique has been compared to Michael Haneke, who is incidentally a director i don’t like watching. Not surprisingly, like a Haneke film, the movie moves at a glacial pace. While there are hints of voyeurism, a touch of Hitchcock’s Rear Window, the style is more Haneke, and the plot essentially goes nowhere. There is a revelation in the end about the female lead’s motives, but the characters created are so cold, so distant that one does not really care about them.
There is a certain brilliance in this film, and alot of potential. But the film is so terminally boring and slow that i cannot in good faith recommend it to anyone. If it was more Hitchcock and less Haneke, it would have been a better film. As it now stands, its a technically accomplished but boring film.
