2009 · thriller · mystery · crime
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Directed by Julian Jarrold1h 46m2009
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
Our read: Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded thriller · mystery · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme thriller / mystery, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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