Red Riding 1980

 

Red Riding 1980

• Director: James Marsh
• Seen by this director: The Theory of Everything
• Based on the book by David Peace
• Cast: Paddy Considine, Maxine Peake, Ron Cook, Shaun Harris, Lesley Sharp, Peter Mullan, Robert Sheehan, Shaun Dooley, Julia Ford, and many other greats who only played small rolls (David Morrisey, Jim Carter, James Fox, David Calder, Warren Clarke, Eddie Marsan)
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Paddy Considine – Journeyman, The Girl with All the Gifts, Macbeth, Pride, The World’s End, Hot Fuzz, My Summer of Love, 24 Hour People, Born Romantic
• Robert Sheehan – Mortal Engines, Fortitude, Misfits, Red Riding 1974
• Maxine Peake – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Theory of Everything, The Hollow Crown  
• Ron Cook – Hot Fuzz, Doctor Who, The Merchant of Venice, 24 Hour Party People, Chocolat, Topsy-Turvey, Secrets and Lies, The Singing Detective, Richard III, Henry VI Parts 1,2,3, The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Shaun Harris – Macbeth, Prometheus, Brighton Rock, 24 Hour Party People.
• Lesley Sharp – Cranford, Doctor Who, Vera Drake, From Hell, Great Expectations, The Full Monty, Naked.
• Peter Mullan – Sunshine on Leith, The Liability, Tyrannosaur, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, Red Riding 1974, Stone of Destiny, Boy A, Children of Men, Young Adam, The Magdalene Sisters, My Name Is Joe, Trainspotting, Shallow Graves, Riff-Raff
• Shaun Dooley – Doctor Who, Broadchurch, Misfits, The Woman in Black, The Awakening, South Riding, Hustle
• Julia Ford – Misfits, Being Human, Dinotopia
• Why? Second Part of trilogy
• Seen:  20 October 2022      

       In the last four years twelve women have been murdered by the Yorkshire Ripper. Is the thirteenth murdered woman also his victim?

       Detective Peter Hunter (Considine) is brought in from the Manchester police force to lead the investigation.

       The beginning is slow and confusing. I don’t usually like police procedural films, or corrupt cop films, but I like Considine so I will persevere.

       There is tension and drama, emotional moments too. The acting is, of course, as good as we expect from British actors, but I miss the youthful passion that Andrew Garfield’s character Eddie brought to the trilogy’s first film. 

3* of 5