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Red Lights (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 84 Fresh: 70  Rotten:14 Average Rating: 7.1/10
 
Consensus: Red Lights is a taut, character-driven thriller, set against the debris-strewn battleground of a failing marriage.
 

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Rated: 15

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Theatrical Release: 24-09-2004

Synopsis: Starring French cinema legends Carole Bouquet (THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE) and Jean-Pierre Darroussin (UN AIR DE FAMILLE), director Cedric Kahn's thriller, based on a novel by Georges Simenon, features dry humor and Hitchcockian suspense. The relationship between Antoine... Starring French cinema legends Carole Bouquet (THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE) and Jean-Pierre Darroussin (UN AIR DE FAMILLE), director Cedric Kahn's thriller, based on a novel by Georges Simenon, features dry humor and Hitchcockian suspense. The relationship between Antoine (Darroussin) and Helene (Bouquet) is deteriorating. Helene spends more time at work, Antoine drinks, and the two act like mere acquaintances, not lovers. When Antoine stops at a bar and Helene threatens to continue without him, a fight erupts between them. Angry and drunk, Antoine insists on staying in the bar, but when he emerges he finds the car empty, save for a note saying that Helene has left for the train. In a drunken stupor, Antoine attempts to follow his wife's trail, joined by a mysterious and dangerous hitchhiker, without realizing that the obvious way to find her has been in front of him the entire time. Bouquet and Darroussin play off each other beautifully. Darroussin convincingly plays a man who has lost himself. And Bouquet is strong as a wife who has placed her husband at the bottom of her priority list. That a tragedy is the one thing that can help them repair their fractured marriage feels palpably realistic. At its heart, RED LIGHTS is an exploration of intimacy, love, and what it takes to build a successful relationship, but the film also provides satisfying humorous chills and nice dose of suspense. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard, Carline Paul, Jean-Pierre Gos

Director: Cedric Kahn
Screenwriter: Cedric Kahn, Laurence Ferreira-Barbosa, Gilles Marchand
Story: Georges Simenon

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Release:

Oct 3, 2006

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10/06/04
Matthew Turner
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An excellent performance from Jean-Pierre Darroussin is the driving force in what could be described as a psychological drama, a road movie and a thriller

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09/23/04
Wendy Ide
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4/5

Absorbing and suspenseful.

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08/17/04
Tom Dawson
BBC
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4/5

Works as both a detailed examination of urban marriage and a creepy road movie.

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07/19/04
Rich Cline
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Shines.

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Nick Schager
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One weird movie.

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04/11/05
Dennis Schwartz
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03/07/05
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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A compelling addition to the long tradition of artful French film adaptations of works of mystery and suspense literature.

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03/04/05
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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It’s a gripping and powerful film that intrigues by the confluence of the mundane with the extraordinary.

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Marjorie Baumgarten
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Barely makes it into the passing lane. It's stop-and-go all the way.

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01/07/05
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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A peculiar and occasionally engaging thriller that unfortunately lacks thrills.

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01/06/05
Paul Doro
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Everything that ensues is exactly what we expect to ensue, doled out with a fastidiousness that places too high a priority on verisimilitude and not enough on, y'know, entertainment.

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01/06/05
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly
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Puts a tense, deteriorating marriage on a highway-bound collision course with a killer.

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12/24/04
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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An exercise in intrigue and tension, and the slow, constant build-up of dread has a certain Hitchcock flair.

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12/24/04
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies
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A film of pat psychology

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12/23/04
Bill Chambers
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