Like Hitchcock, Kahn uses dry humor and keen observation of human character (and character flaws) to spin a compelling brand of menace.
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10/14/04
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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
This French ... opens so promisingly that it's tres tragique when, two-thirds along, it makes a U-turn into the melodramatic and maudlin.
10/12/04
Top CriticThe film, like the cheap double-scotches quaffed down by the central character, leaves a distinctly sour aftertaste that's hard to wash away the morning after.
10/08/04
Top CriticAs thrillers go, this one is domestic, mundane and hypnotic.
10/08/04
Top CriticAn eerily affecting domestic drama combining elements of The Lost Weekend with Lost Highway.
10/08/04
Top CriticA weird road-trip spin on Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs.
10/08/04
Top CriticPsychologically 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
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
Is it a memorable cinematic experience? Oddly, no.
10/08/04
Events never transpire as one would expect from a more conventional thriller.
10/08/04
Red Lights bristles with subcutaneous fear at signals which Hollywood thrillers routinely run.
10/07/04
One of the best thrillers I have seen this year: tight, taut, and unpredictable.
10/07/04
Top CriticUnexpected in every way.
10/07/04
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10/06/04
Its pace is altogether too measured, but ultimately pays off in broad Hitchcockian strokes
10/06/04
It evokes the spirit of Hitchcock and Highsmith, as Antoine undergoes an all-night odyssey that redeems his manhood, at the expense, naturally, of all good behavior.
09/30/04
Top CriticHad Kahn got the finale right, Red Lights would be up there with the best of them. But don't worry: you'll be too drained leaving the cinema to complain too loudly.
09/28/04
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
09/23/04
Some viewers, such as this one, may find themselves thinking: 'None of this would be happening if the bartenders at French roadhouses refused to serve alcohol to the designated driver.'
09/11/04
A remarkably compelling marital nightmare.
09/10/04
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