UKers have probably seen this advertised on C4 but I don't know if any of you have been watching.
The third and final film was on tonight and it all wrapped up brilliantly, I wasn't really sure I understood everything until the third part.
This is seriously dark, gritty, noirish Northern crime investigation at it's best, it gets better with each installment so if you decide to give it a go don't give up after the slightly weak first installment.
Info & Quotes:
Red Riding is a trilogy of movies based on a quartet of novels by David Peace.
The three films - titled Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty-Three were adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni (Tideland and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
Each film in the Red Riding trilogy has a different director, with the first installment helmed by Julian Jarrold (director of the Anne Hathaway starrer Becoming Jane); James Marsh (the Oscar winning Man On Wire) called the shots on the second and the third film was directed by Anand Tucker (Steve Martin’s Shopgirl).
The films appear to have the same texture of the great 1970’s films such as All The Presidents Men and Serpico, with thick plot and layered performances from the first rate British cast that includes Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and David Morrissey.
While based on actual events, the author of the books says that the stories are “fiction torn out of the facts.”
1974, Yorkshire - a time of paranoia, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield) is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit that characterises a police investigation into a series of child abductions.
In the second episode, directed by Marsh and set in 1980, The “Ripper” has tyrannised Yorkshire for six long years, and with the local police failing to make any progress, the Home Office sends in Manchester officer Peter Hunter (Considine) to review the investigation. Having previously made enemies in the Yorkshire force while investigating a shooting incident in 1974, Hunter finds himself increasingly isolated when his version of events challenges their official line on the “Ripper”.
In the final instalment, directed by Tucker and set in 1983, another young girl has disappeared and Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson (Morrissey) recognises some alarming similarities to the abductions in 1974, forcing him to come to terms with the fact that he may have helped convict the wrong man. When local solicitor John Piggott (Addy) is persuaded to fight this miscarriage of justice he finds himself slowly uncovering a catalogue of cover ups.
Seriously guys and gals, buy the DVD's (when they come out) or watch them on the Channel 4 Site (Windows PC only) or find them elsewhere on the net. I was tempted to put this in Movie Discussion as they really are Films not TV but as they all intertwine so much I decided to put them in Coaxial.
Also the four books that these are based on are meant to be even better, anyone read the books?
