England,
1987, 62 min
Shown in 1993
CREDITS
- dir
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Alan Clarke
- prod
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Andree Molyneux
- scr
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Jim Cartwright
- cam
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John Goodyer
- editor
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Bill Wright
- cast
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Neil Dudgeon, Jane Horrocks, William Armstrong, Massie Smith
- source
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BBC TV
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COMMENTS
Shown as part of tribute to Alan Clarke.
OTHER
Road, from a play by Jim Cartwright, is set on a bleak housing estate in the north of England, a hellish existence, a prison without guards. The film is theatrical in that humble characters have long and even grand speeches; but the film is harsh and realistic, with momentous steadicam tracking shots as these people (including a young Jane Horrocks, the troubled daughter in Life Is Sweet) walk the estate, lost in reverie, anger or the neurotic habit of marching.
—David Thomson
FACTOID #162
The Stand-In (1985), Nina Takes a Lover (1994), Dream for an Insomniac (1996), Dream with the Fishes (1997), Teknolust (2002) and Dopamine(2003) were not only screened at Festival but were also shot in San Francisco.
