The Road Dance

2022 1h 56m EN

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6.7

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79%

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METACRITIC

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7.1

IMDB

★6.7TMDB · 50🍅79%Rotten Tomatoes●54Metacritic★7.1IMDB · 2,353

Drama

Synopsis

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A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Hermione Corfield
Kirsty MacLeod
Morven Christie
Mairi MacLeod
Mark Gatiss
Doctor MacLean
Will Fletcher
Murdo MacAulay
Ali Fumiko Whitney
Annie MacLeod
Ian Pirie
Constable MacRae
Jeff Stewart
Skipper
David Brooks
Kirsty’s Father

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Richie Adams
Writers: Richie Adams, Maryilene Blondell
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America

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ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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2 / 7

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Richie Adams, shot by Petra Korner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Editor Matt Mayer shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Hermione Corfield and Morven Christie and Mark Gatiss carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt11332484 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 50 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Richie Adams directs. Petra Korner behind the camera. Matt Mayer cuts. Produced in United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 4 years ago.
2International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.
3Directed by Richie Adams, shot by Petra Korner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Matt Mayer shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Hermione Corfield and Morven Christie and Mark Gatiss carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt11332484 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 50 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Petra Korner
Editing: Matt Mayer
Production design: Anna Mould
Costume design: Gill Horn
Makeup / hair: Christine Cant
Sound: Lawrence Zipf
Stunt coordinator: Elaine Ford
Runtime: 116 min · 1h 56m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $21,300
Original language: EN
Certification (US): M
IMDB: The Road Dance (2022)
Rotten Tomatoes: 79% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 54/100
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 · 2,353 votes

Awards

3 wins total

Also by

Richie Adams

Of Mind and Music
2014 · ★ 5.7

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CinemaSerf2024-07-14
★ 7/10
With the Great War fast approaching, this story focusses on the young "Kirsty" (Hermione Corfield) who is well and truly enamoured of the slightly bookish "Murdo" (Will Fletcher). Their formal courtship follows all of the traditions of the Hebridean customs with due deference paid to the minister and the rules of the kirk. They do plan to marry, everyone expects and approves of that - but then the island's young men are conscripted. Individually, they might be posted anywhere but if they join up together, though, then they will be posted together - so a road dance is arranged to help send them on their way. Now plumbing on the island isn't what it might be, so "Kirsty" heads into the heather and that's where the story turns quite heinous. "Murdo" heads off to war completely unaware that his beloved is now the owner of an increasingly terrible secret that is going to change the life of her, her mother (Morven Christie) and sister (Ali Fumiko Whitney) forever. Tragedies for this girl are like busses, they take their time then come in clutches - and the surfeit of bad news facing the young girl forces her to drastic measures that require her family to rally round and shield her from the eyes of the curious constable (Ian Pirie) before coming to terms with a scenario that seems hopeless. This is a beautifully shot feature showing off the bleak beauty of the Isle of Lewis whilst showing us something of the sense of the slightly puritanical and fairly subsistence community that existed there in the 1930s. Corfield delivers convincingly as the plot develops, engaging charmingly with the young Fletcher then exuding some of the courage required by this young girl dealing with an unwanted situation on just about every front. The denouement is a little but rushed, but the film ultimately has an acceptable degree of completeness that stays just the right side of sentimentality.