Kahn has a marvelous command of the material, showing a fine facility for the elements of the genre.
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09/10/04
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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
The novel from which writer-director Cedric Kahn adapted Red Lights was, ironically, set in the United States over an arid Labor day weekend. Kahn's update may be more air-conditioned, but it's just as claustrophobic, creepy and allegorical.
09/10/04
Top CriticTaut, atmospheric, impeccably made psychological thriller.
09/09/04
Top CriticA splendid evocation of its literary inspiration.
09/09/04
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.
09/09/04
Take a bickering couple, put them in a car, get the driver drunk, add some terrible traffic and an escaped killer, and you've got "Red Lights," a movie I recommend to no one.
09/05/04
The endless line of glowing red brake lights ahead, the glaring headlights behind and the psychological tension within the capsule of the car combine to create a poisonous atmosphere that gradually seeps out and pervades the entire film.
09/03/04
Austere little thriller that works its way under your skin even before much of anything happens.
09/03/04
Top CriticEmotion and aesthetics get equal play in this adaptation of a novel by Georges Simenon, creating high-tension entertainment of the highest order.
09/03/04
Top CriticFrance has produced dozens of Hitchcock- style films since Cahiers du Cinema elevated Hitch to the pantheon nearly five decades ago, but few lately have been as suspenseful and psychologically insightful as Red Lights.
09/03/04
Top CriticThere is something thoroughly American about its theme of masculinity and rough justice. It's as if Antoine wants to release his inner-Dirty Harry.
09/03/04
It is a chilly study of an uncomfortably common breed of male paranoia.
09/02/04
Top CriticStrange, scary, and atmospheric, with a delicious Claude Debussy score.
09/02/04
A satisfyingly well-wrought, old-school thriller: Character drives the plot, literally.
08/31/04
Top CriticMr. Darroussin and Ms. Bouquet make Antoine and Helene such compelling characters that their lives seem to become precious by their very fragility.
08/26/04
Top CriticEven normally radiant Bouquet can't save Red Lights from its flawed logic and uneven tone.
08/19/04
From Simenon's taut, breath-catching tale, writer-director Cedric Kahn has made an engrossing film with a great central performance by Jean-Pierre Darroussin.
08/19/04
Top CriticRed Lights is a gripping and convincing French psychodrama with a tour de force performance by Jean-Pierre Darroussin.
08/18/04
Kahn's direction is aces; he's learned the tricks from the masters of suspense and noir and added a spaced out sensibility of his own.
08/18/04
Absorbing and suspenseful.
08/17/04
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