"Red Road" is the first of a planned trilogy on account of the Move onward Exponent film stirring, an sprig of Dogme 95 which was founded by Danish filmmakers Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. Dogme 95 followed a set aside of rules that created a back to basics instructions recompense film. Dogme filmmakers Lone Scherfig ("Italian for Beginners") and Anders Thomas Jensen ("Election Night") adapted those same principles for their splinter group, then came up with their own steady of characters. These characters will be featured in each of the three films and handed as a remainder to three different in front-time feature-mistiness directors. Each filmmaker is to come up with their own disband story involving those characters. All films in the Advance Party trilogy will be shot in Glasgow and are co-produced by the Scottish Sigma Films and Von Trier´s Zentropa. Helmed by Andrea Arnold (who won an Oscar for her short film "Wasp"), "Red Road" kicked off Approach Party on a on a trip note pleasant the Jury Prize at the 2006 Cannes as okay as sweeping the Scottish BAFTAs. Unfortunately, the movement may have stalled as the next two productions by Morag McKinnon and Mikkel Norgaard are currently in limbo.
Jackie (Kate Dickie) works as a closed border television operator. She mans a madden of surveillance monitors that overlook the Red Road flats of Glasgow, a neighborhood known fitted its high-rises and a wave of crime during the 1970´s. Jackie is estranged from her household and unmistakeably hides a great deal of pain. At a wedding reception, she barely speaks to anybody there and alone has a few brief words with a correspondent before quickly departing. Jackie engages in quickie shacking up with a mate (and married man) in a surveillance van parked in a field far from prying eyes. This is the closest feature she has to sexual contact with another human being. The only geographically come to pass offspring Jackie has is the little people she watches on TV. Jackie acts as a shepherd for the neighborhood folks. She likely doesn´t imperturbable know their names, but grows concerned for some, such as a reclusive, overweight ball in an commission building and an elderly man walking his sick bulldog.
Jackie´s unagitated, yet distant, ungenerous world is shaken to its middle when she notices a certain staff in one of her monitors. This Homo sapiens is Clyde Henderson (Tony Curran), recently released from cooler and now working as a locksmith. Jackie becomes completely obsessed with Clyde. She follows him during her monitor bay, zooming in and following his every step. She´s so intent on watching Clyde that she completely misses a near-fatal stabbing of a young helpmeet. Soon, Jackie begins stalking him on the road. She follows him into a café, then tracks down the apartment where he´s staying. Jackie worms her pathway into the lives of Clyde and his roommate/cellmate Stevie (Martin Compston) and Stevie´s girlfriend April (Nathalie Press). She crashes a party they´re throwing and comes face-to-face with the against of her fixation. Clyde knows he´s seen Jackie before somewhere, but can´t place her. They join in combat in a tumultuous relationship that culminates in a love appear that is detailed and anything, but tender. The next morning Jackie calls the police and frames Clyde for a lustful hold-up. It doesn´t plagiarize her extended to recant and it is only when confronted by Clyde that she reveals exactly what their hidden influence is.