Three Association Preview Preview Already Lauded at Cannes, Red Road Will Be Released This Week. But the Glasgow-Set Cctv Thriller Is Just the First in an Innovative Scottish Film Trilogy . . .

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EXPECTATION is both millstone and whetstone. It can drag you down as well as sharpen you up, a fact that won't have been lost on film- makers Morag McKinnon and Mikkel Noergaard as they watched fellow director Andrea Arnold triumph at this year's Cannes film festival. Arnold's debut feature was one of only two British films in competition for the Palme d'Or. It lost out there, but went on to scoop the Jury Prize, a not insignificant award in its own right.

Arnold is no stranger to the winner's podium, having won an Oscar in 2005 for her short film Wasp, but this year she found herself well and truly in the spotlight. It was the sort of attention- grabbing splash most young directors can only dream about and the rollercoaster continues tonight when Red Road receives its British premiere at the London Film Festival prior to a nationwide release on Friday.

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Three Association Preview Preview Already Lauded at Cannes, Red Road Will Be Released This Week. But the Glasgow-Set Cctv Thriller Is Just the First in an Innovative Scottish Film Trilogy . . .

The Glasgow-set film stars Kate Dickie as a CCTV operator who undertakes a painful journey into her past when she glimpses a familiar face on a monitor one night. The action centres on the city's infamous Red Road flats and Tony Curran plays the mal...

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