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Red Lights |
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 Release Date: 08/20/04 (Future Release)
Starring: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard, Charline Paul, Jean-Pierre Gros
Director: Cedric Kahn
Rating: (NR) |
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Drama, Suspense/Thriller |
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Running Time |
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106 min |
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Wellspring |
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NEW YORK REVIEW
At the beginning of Red Lights, adapted from a Georges Simenon novel by Cédric Kahn, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), a zhlubby, Wallace Shawn-esque insurance-company drone, and his wife, Hélène (Carole Bouquet), a stunning corporate lawyer, set off from Paris by car to pick up their children at summer camp. Their disparity is more than comical—it's almost hallucinatory. We feel that these two could be together only as part of a wish-fulfillment fantasy (his). The reality is much starker. As he pulls into bars along the way and gets progressively drunker, Antoine yells at his wife, unjustly, for failing to treat him like a man. Finally, she leaves him a note saying she's taking the train instead. The loss of someone in the night carries with it a particular dread; it's as if the darkness itself were a conspirator. Hélène doesn't reappear for a long time, but her glacéed presence—reminiscent of a Hitchcock heroine's—hovers over the movie like a chill wind. Antoine goes crazy trying to track her down, which is complicated by the fact that the hitchhiker he's picked up is most likely an escaped criminal for whom the police have been setting up roadblocks. Kahn expands the dreamlike quality of the marital pairing into a sinister fantasia in which everything is fated to go wrong—except, perhaps, the love that inexplicably binds this couple. Red Lights is the most ambiguously compelling romance around. — Reviewed by Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
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