The Red Riding Trilogy
2009
Compelling, complex, gripping and genuinely disturbing, THE RED RIDING TRILOGY is a breathtaking, neo-noir epic based on horrific, factual events and adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LAOTHING IN LAS VEGAS, TIDELAND) from David Peace's series of groundbreaking novels. The Red Riding Trilogy follows controversial .. Read more
| Starring | Rebecca Hall, Paddy Considine, Sean Bean, Andrew Garfield |
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| Director | Anand Tucker, Julian Jarrold, James Marsh |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Red Riding Trilogy
Compelling, complex, gripping and genuinely disturbing, THE RED RIDING TRILOGY is a breathtaking, neo-noir epic based on horrific, factual events and adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LAOTHING IN LAS VEGAS, TIDELAND) from David Peace's series of groundbreaking novels. The Red Riding Trilogy follows controversial stories revolving around the manhunt for the brutal Yorkshire Ripper. After a failed attempt to crack Fleet Street, a cynical journalist returns to his homeland of Yorkshire and finds himself assigned to report on the case of a local girl who has gone missing. But after her bizarrely mutilated body is discovered, he is thrown into a sleaze infested, nightmarish world of corruption. As the killer's identity remains a mystery, savage events spiral out of control, spanning generations and leading to a shocking climax.
The three films (1974, 1980 and 1983) are directed by three different filmmakers, Julian Jarrold (BECOMING JANE), James Marsh (Academy Award Winner 2009 for MAN ON WIRE) and Anand Tucker (HILARY AND JACKIE), and each boasts a fantastic British cast. Sean Bean (LORD OF THE RINGS) joins Mark Addy (THE FULL MONTY), Warren Clarke (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE), Paddy Considine (DEAD MAN'S SHOES), Andrew Garfield (BOY A), Rebecca Hall (VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA), David Morrissey (THE OTHER BOELYN GIRL) , Peter Mullan (TRAINSPOTTING) and Maxine Peake (TV's SHAMELESS).
| Starring | Rebecca Hall, Paddy Considine, Sean Bean, Andrew Garfield, Eddie Marson, David Morrissey, Michelle Dockery, Anthony Flanagan, Kelly Freemantle, Brendan McCoy, Stewart Ross, Robert Sheehan |
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| Director | Anand Tucker, Julian Jarrold, James Marsh |
| Studio | OPTIMUM RELEASING |
| Run time | DVD: 5 hrs |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 13 Apr 2009 Production year: 2009 |
| Format | DVD |
The Red Riding Trilogy (3 discs) (2009)
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...the three films are perfectly suited to the current vogue for a serious examination of our recent past's bleaker chapters...
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The evil twin to LIFE ON MARS
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51 out of 51 people found this review helpful
It's Grim Up North
This is one of the rare occasions where the product actually lives up to the hype. Having read the four novels shortly before the series aired I had high expectations for the series - and I was not disappointed. The only concern I would have be for first time viewers who had not read the books who may find it a little hard to keep track of the many threads running through the series - the books were after all a quartet with the second book '1977' left out, although referenced at times. I am sure though that a repeat viewing would resolve that problem.
The series placed great faith in mainly established actors and they were to a man and women superb throughout. I particularly enjoyed seeing Paddy Constantine slightly out of character in his role as a hated police trouble-shooter and Warren Clarke as a scenery-chewing, thunderous, malevolent black cloud of a corrupt evil copper. Sean Bean was also immense as John Dawson, something which can not always be said - 'When Saturday Comes' springs to mind amongst other roles.
I would personally watch the stunning Rebecca Hall playing the spoons on a wet Thursday afternoon, and in this Seventies femme-fatale role she is particularly alluring.
The books were crime novels written in a very poetic, literary manner casting a dark, cloying, atmosphere throughout and the films, although filmed by three different directors capture that in slightly different ways.
I do not wish to give any plot details other than to mention the main themes of the North, police corruption, casual Seventies violence, child abduction and the evil that men can do.
If you are looking for a heavy stylised, cartoon version of the seventies a la 'Life On Mars' then this is not for you. This is a relentlessly bleak, harrowing Seventies based around true events such as the Yorkshire Ripper killings and the subsequent, calamitous police investigation. In this world if you get hit, you go down and may not get up again. No one can hear you scream in a locked cell. No one cares. You may die.
It certainly is grim up North. -
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51 out of 51 people found this review helpful
It's Grim Up North
This is one of the rare occasions where the product actually lives up to the hype. Having read the four novels shortly before the series aired I had high expectations for the series - and I was not disappointed. The only concern I would have be for first time viewers who had not read the books who may find it a little hard to keep track of the many threads running through the series - the books were after all a quartet with the second book '1977' left out, although referenced at times. I am sure though that a repeat viewing would resolve that problem.
The series placed great faith in mainly established actors and they were to a man and women superb throughout. I particularly enjoyed seeing Paddy Constantine slightly out of character in his role as a hated police trouble-shooter and Warren Clarke as a scenery-chewing, thunderous, malevolent black cloud of a corrupt evil copper. Sean Bean was also immense as John Dawson, something which can not always be said - 'When Saturday Comes' springs to mind amongst other roles.
I would personally watch the stunning Rebecca Hall playing the spoons on a wet Thursday afternoon, and in this Seventies femme-fatale role she is particularly alluring.
The books were crime novels written in a very poetic, literary manner casting a dark, cloying, atmosphere throughout and the films, although filmed by three different directors capture that in slightly different ways.
I do not wish to give any plot details other than to mention the main themes of the North, police corruption, casual Seventies violence, child abduction and the evil that men can do.
If you are looking for a heavy stylised, cartoon version of the seventies a la 'Life On Mars' then this is not for you. This is a relentlessly bleak, harrowing Seventies based around true events such as the Yorkshire Ripper killings and the subsequent, calamitous police investigation. In this world if you get hit, you go down and may not get up again. No one can hear you scream in a locked cell. No one cares. You may die.
It certainly is grim up North. -
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