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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.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Aug 20, 2004 Limited

Box Office: $515,992

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,... 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]

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

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

Director: Cedric Kahn

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

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10/19/04
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A chilling study of brink-of-divorce domesticity and wicked Hitchcockian sexual politics.

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Mr. Darroussin and Ms. Bouquet make Antoine and Helene such compelling characters that their lives seem to become precious by their very fragility.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
08/26/04
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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Kahn's amazing ability to sustain a mood of impending dread makes this film a boderline classic.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Mercury | comment Comment
12/16/04
Anthony Del Valle
Anthony Del Valle
Las Vegas Mercury

A film of pat psychology

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
12/23/04
Bill Chambers
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central

Cédric Kahn has crafted a motion picture that is a mix of genres that succeeds in convincing the audience to care about the characters on screen.

Full Review Source: european-films.net | comment Comment
07/30/04
Boyd van Hoeij
Boyd van Hoeij
european-films.net

A weird road-trip spin on Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs.

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10/08/04
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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A sort of relationship thriller about the discomfort of living in one another's company — and also about the terror of being alone in the night.

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07/02/04
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

Subtle and stylish, Red Lights will remind moviegoers not only of Ms. [Flannery] O'Connor but also of Alfred Hitchcock.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
10/14/04
Charles Ealy
Charles Ealy
Dallas Morning News
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It has that French feel to it that's hard to describe, but immediately recognizable. If Hollywood made it, you would have the action, but not the tension - Viva la différence.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
10/15/04
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

The power of suggestion is so strong in Red Lights that, when it ends, you may feel like the whole movie was in your mind.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
12/02/04
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

The true mystery, Red Lights' real thrill ride -- and what seems to interest Kahn most, despite his skill at arranging the trappings of suspense -- is marriage.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
09/09/04
Chuck Wilson
Chuck Wilson
L.A. Weekly

Not since Two for the Road (1967) has a married couple in French transit been slapped so sideways along the byways.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
11/12/04
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

Strange, scary, and atmospheric, with a delicious Claude Debussy score.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
09/02/04
David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

One weird movie.

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04/11/05
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Admirable in its cinematographic conception, but too many minor characters introduce aspects that need explaining but are ignored.

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08/16/04
Donald J. Levit
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