RED WHITE & BLUE
Title: RED WHITE & BLUE
Original title: RED WHITE & BLUE
Section: Panorama
Director: Simon Rumley
Cast list: Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter, Jon Michael Davis, Nick Ashy Holden, Patrick Crovo, Mary Mathews, Noah Taylor
Credits:
screenplay: Simon Rumley; director of photography: Milton Kam; editor: Rob Hall; music: Richard Chester; sound: Mark Smoot; production design: Josh Crist; costume design: Tessa Justman; producer: Simon Rumley; production: Fidelity Films;
Country: United Kingdom, USA
Year: 2010
Running time: 102
Colour: Colour
Format: 35 mm
As he proved in the haunting THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (2007), Simon Rumley is one of the great British cinematic outsiders, a gifted director with the know-how to puncture the conventions of horror with sophisticated interwoven time frames and unpredictable acts of violence by individuals in crisis. This one is very American in concept and setting – smug slackers and their nemeses in the mostly claustrophobic spaces of Austin, Texas. For nearly the first half of the film, Rumley follows a distant but wildly promiscuous young woman. Then we get a craggy newcomer, recently honorably discharged from Iraq, where he worked as an interrogator in especially difficult cases. The two have something in common: her sexuality and his war experience are weapons of destruction.
Howard Feinstein
