Red Road

Academy Award-winning live-action-short director Andrea Arnold makes a startlingly assured debut with this low-key psychological chiller about a grief-stricken widow who begins stalking the man who destroyed her family.

Dour and depressed, Jackie (the superb Kate Dickie) mans a bank of close-circuit television screens in the control room of City Eye, a Glasgow surveillance program designed to monitor the activities of citizens throughout the city's dodgier neighborhoods. For Jackie, the job usually means watching that now-familiar stranger walking his ailing dog, or checking in on a lonely, overweight woman who works the late shift in an empty office. But ...