Events never transpire as one would expect from a more conventional thriller.
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10/08/04
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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.
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,... [More]
Starring: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard, Carline Paul
Director: Cedric Kahn
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Reviews for Red Lights
A splendid evocation of its literary inspiration.
09/09/04
Its pace is altogether too measured, but ultimately pays off in broad Hitchcockian strokes
10/06/04
Brings with it everything a movie goer would want in a bracingly adult film.
10/22/04
A compelling addition to the long tradition of artful French film adaptations of works of mystery and suspense literature.
03/04/05
One of the best thrillers I have seen this year: tight, taut, and unpredictable.
10/07/04
Top CriticRed Lights blends the blind tension of Hitchcock with a French sense of inevitability, leading us back and forth between action and surrender before ending just where it should.
10/08/04
Top CriticAn exercise in intrigue and tension, and the slow, constant build-up of dread has a certain Hitchcock flair.
12/24/04
Red Lights is a gripping and convincing French psychodrama with a tour de force performance by Jean-Pierre Darroussin.
08/18/04
Is it a memorable cinematic experience? Oddly, no.
10/08/04
Top CriticA devastating dissection of middle-age male disaffection.
11/05/04
Red Lights bristles with subcutaneous fear at signals which Hollywood thrillers routinely run.
10/07/04
A film of pat psychology
12/23/04
Works as both a detailed examination of urban marriage and a creepy road movie.
07/19/04
You get more than a few cheap scares or a rambling parable on domestic contentedness, but a movie with intellectual and psychological oomph
10/31/04
Absorbing and suspenseful.
08/17/04
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.
10/15/04
Kahn's amazing ability to sustain a mood of impending dread makes this film a boderline classic.
12/16/04
Noirishly atmospheric, Red Lights proceeds with caution for much of its length, rarely getting up to cruising speed.
10/27/04
Psychologically dense and often unnerving, Red Lights takes you into the most dangerous territory of all -- the twisted mind of a man, whose facade crumbles over the course of an evening.
10/08/04
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