Red Lights

Feux rouges

France

2003

105 Min

Color

1.85:1

French

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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SCR Cédric Kahn, Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Georges Simenon

CAST Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard, Charline Paul, Alain Dion, Olivier Fornara, Damien Givelet, Philippe Ivancic, Candide Joseph, Brigitte Pain

Summer in Paris. A holiday weekend. Antoine, an insurance clerk is looking forward to meeting his wife Hélène, a successful lawyer. He finishes three beers by the time she arrives. They’re setting out for the South of France to pick up their children. Unfortunately, on the busiest day of the year. To calm his nerves, Antoine stops occasionally for drinks, determined to transgress the limits. The liquor makes him drive more and more dangerously. The couple fight violently. Hélène, having warned him, leaves. Dashing to the next station, he tries to meet her train but he’s too late. Instead, he picks up a strange hitchhiker not knowing he might have already crossed the path of his wife…

A chilling adaptation of novelist Georges Simenon.

Director

Cédric Kahn

Born in Fontenay-aux-Roses, near Paris on 17.6.1996, his first job in film was as a trainee on Maurice Pialat’s SOUS LE SOLEIL DE SATAN. Shortly after this he worked as an assistant editor to Yann Dedet, with whom he later collaborated.He was coauthor on Brigitte Roüan’s OUTREMER. His debut as a feature film director was BAR DES RAILS.He made a name for himself at an international level with his Alberto Moravia adaptation, L’ENNUI and his portrait of serial killer ROBERTO SUCCO. —Berlin International Film Festival

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Z. Bart

1Feb11

The first act is a compelling study of an alcoholic's simmering descent into rebellion and madness; swilling beer and whiskey and fuming at the neglectful behavior of his corporate lawyer wife, Antoine (Jean-Paul Darroussin) is looking for an outlet for his dangerous energies. For me, the film--based on a Georges Simenon novel--eventually becomes a second-rate story about a murderous stranger.