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Jackie inside Clyde's apartment. Red Road, Zentropa/Sigma Films, 2006.

Jackie inside Clyde's apartment. Red Road, Zentropa/Sigma Films, 2006.

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The association of colour, sensation and the body, which is noted by Jacqueline Lichtenstein and Merleau-Ponty through their insights on colour as the disturbing of structure and form, offers a way in which to foreground a series of questions about embodiment and the discourse of vision. An analysis of the chromatics of Red Road (Dir. Andrea Arnold...

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... Clyde approaches Jackie the film cuts between a series of closeups: each time the framing of one then the other, moving closer, and marking the narrowing of the gap between them. Each shot is suffused with a red light that obscures visual details; their conversation stilted in the embrace of a slow dance (Figure 2). The continuity of colour and close framing, which mark a shift in the temporality of the film, differs from memory, and yet acts as a pause and a coda. ...