Saturday, December 25, 2010

Red Riding Trilogy: '74 / '80 / '83, 2009 (Grade B+)

this is three separate movies all tied together by an original crime
Directors: Jullian Jarrold; James Marsh; Anand Tucker
Any Awards? don't know of any
CAST: Andrew Garfield; David Morrissey; John Henshaw; Anthony Flanagan; Warren Clarke;  Jennifer Hennessy;  Peter Mullan;  Rachel Jane Allen;  Paddy Considine;  Rebecca Hall; James Fox;  David Calder;  Nicholas Woodeson;  Ron Cook;  Lisa Howard;  Chris Walker;  Shaun Dooley;  Jim Carter; Sean Bean; Sean Harris;  Steven Robertson
plot summary:  this sweeping trilogy traces the agonizingly protracted search for the mysterious Yorkshire Ripper and the rampant police corruption that impeded the investigation. Inspired by actual events and adapted from David Peace's Red Riding series of novels, this neo-noir epic that comes close to being great.
sez says:  well done, well acted, a few loose ends in the story --but overall it held together as a real 'who done it' that wasn't obvious--but never strayed from being believable.  Good guys get killed off a little too often--but another good guy always comes along and another thread is found and in the end all is made whole
mjc says  production values and cinematography provided an intriguing telling of a fictionalization of a series of murders on the north of England

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