The Road Dance (2021) on Netflix
NR20211h 56m
Kirsty Macleod plans to leave the Hebridean island of Lewis for America with Murdo MacAulay. When he is called up for the Great War, the village holds a dance in the road.
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- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb7.1/102,361 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes79%
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Plot summary
In the years before the First World War, Kirsty Macleod lives in Garenin, a village on the Hebridean island of Lewis, with her widowed mother, Mairi, and her sister, Annie. Kirsty and her boyfriend, Murdo MacAulay, plan to leave for America. The war interrupts them: Murdo and the other young men of the village are called up for service, and the community holds a dance in the road to honor the men before they go. That night an unidentified assailant attacks Kirsty. The village doctor, Maclean, examines her afterward and confirms that she was raped; who attacked her is not known.
Cast
- Jeff Stewartas Skipper
- Felicity Keenanas Young Kirsty
- Scott Milleras Calum Morrison
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Road Dance (2021)
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- Co-producer Jim Kreutzer read The Road Dance by journalist and author John Mackay and was looking for a project outside the US; Mackay had already written a script from his own book, but Kreutzer thought it too dark, so director Richie Adams re-fashioned it.
- The film premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2021, where it won the Audience Award for Best Film; it later won the jury prize for best feature at the Manchester Film Festival and the audience choice award for best feature drama at the Sedona International Film Festival.
- Filming began in October 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, on location at Gearrannan Blackhouse Village, a restored village near Carloway on the Isle of Lewis.
