Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Red Riding (2010)
1974 is also key because it contextualizes our characters and events. The heavy atmosphere prepares us for the journey ahead; a journey through alleyways and ghettos, though crooked businesses and police precincts รข the lenses always meditating on the despair, corruption, and refuse, yet the color timing, compositions and lighting always remaining beautiful and almost ethereal and exquisite. The film itself is fabled femme fatale. Alluring, and hypnotic but dangerous.
The acting is stellar and consistent throughout the series. Highlights include Robert Sheehan’s (Song for a Craggy Boy) BJ as a glam rock male prostitute. He is enigmatic, tragic, but never lacking hope; I would like to see him one day play Marc Bolan in the story of his life. Veteran character actor Jim Carter (Top Secret and Haunted Honeymoon) is exquisitely corrupt and mean-as-hell as the head of the Yorkshire police, very volatile and grotesque to watch. Warren Clarke (Dim from A Clockwork Orange) as Bill Malloy also gives a strong performance as a man trying, against all odds to save a child thought lost against the cynicism of the system.