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.
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12/02/04
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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
Thriller/mystery buffs might find the narrative slow; the thriller elements aren't introduced until the movie is nearly half over, and the mystery starts even later. But a dandy payoff will reward those who are patient.
12/02/04
Cedric Kahn is so adept at building Hitchcockian suspense out of the ordinary that the twist is truly chilling rather than silly.
11/26/04
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11/23/04
It's admirably streamlined and spare.
11/19/04
Not since Two for the Road (1967) has a married couple in French transit been slapped so sideways along the byways.
11/12/04
It's a very sly piece of filmmaking.
11/12/04
Red Lights seethes with unexpected thrills around almost every corner. Antoine . . . has no clue to what lies ahead. ... Neither do we. That elevates the intrigue.
11/12/04
A devastating dissection of middle-age male disaffection.
11/05/04
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
[The plot] is filled with ingenious deceptions and sleight-of-hand trickery.
10/29/04
Noirishly atmospheric, Red Lights proceeds with caution for much of its length, rarely getting up to cruising speed.
10/27/04
Kahn has taken the slight, character-driven piece and invested it with a delicious frisson of quiet, almost everyday menace...stop and watch.
10/25/04
Brings with it everything a movie goer would want in a bracingly adult film.
10/22/04
A chilling study of brink-of-divorce domesticity and wicked Hitchcockian sexual politics.
10/19/04
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10/19/04
The most ambiguously compelling romance around.
10/19/04
Top CriticIt 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
Subtle and stylish, Red Lights will remind moviegoers not only of Ms. [Flannery] O'Connor but also of Alfred Hitchcock.
10/14/04
Top CriticBut there's a line between suspense and mere annoyance, a line director Kahn is either flagrantly ignoring or just doesn't understand.
10/14/04
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