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.
Acting
Garfield's desperate hunger — you feel his idealism curdling in real time.
Cinematography
16mm film stock makes Yorkshire look like a wound that won't heal.
Direction
Jarrold shoots corruption like horror — the banality IS the terror.
Director
Julian Jarrold
Andrew Garfield
Eddie Dunford
Warren Clarke
Bill Molloy
Sean Bean
John Dawson
David Morrissey
Maurice Jobson
John Henshaw
Bill Hadley
Anthony Flanagan
Barry Gannon
Jennifer Hennessy
Mrs Kemplay
Mary Jo Randle
Eddie's Mum
Rita May
Aunty Win
Michelle Dockery
Kathryn Tyler
Robert Sheehan
BJ
Eddie Marsan
Jack Whitehead
Daniel Mays
Michael Myshkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on David Peace's 'Yorkshire Noir' novels, which fictionalized real crimes including the Yorkshire Ripper case. The trilogy deliberately blurs fact and fever-dream.
The entire Red Riding trilogy was filmed back-to-back with three different directors — Jarrold, James Marsh, and Anand Tucker — each bringing distinct visual grammar to the same institutional rot.
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This Movie is Ace. Highly recommended!!!
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So suspenseful !
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Great film
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