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Antoine and Helene drive to South France to return their kids from a holiday camp. The traffic is dense and the atmosphere growingly tense; he is an alcoholic and becomes increasingly drunk the more o...( read more 
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MCT:May 8, 2008A very tense thriller that mostly works very well. Jean Pierre Darroussin is very chilling as the husband, the sort of man you hate at first but slowly begin to like. I just felt that there were some pacing problems in the first half hour. I think it needed ten minutes or so shaving off it to really work.
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MCT:May 8, 2008Jean-Pierre Darroussin's character was such a jerk to his wife, especially when the wife is played by the gorgeous Carole Bouquet. Red Lights, with it's mysterious plot and steady pace, shows the common male paranoia. I don't know if the end brought justice or if it made me happy, I just hope the husband will start being nice to his family and quit drinking.
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MCT:May 8, 2008
A quite disturbing and minimalist examination of French middle-class existence. It reminds me of Haneke's 'Hidden' in that it demonstrates the repressed tension and violence underlying the banal placidity of an ordinary marriage. Kahn's film is a wonderfully black investigation of how middle-class oppressiveness can result in people going off the rails entirely. The film is minimal in its use of emotional effects, and in a Hitchcockian way has a mysterious narrative structure which is unsettling as the events themselves. The journey into the 'heart of darkness' in the midst of massive traffic reminds me of Godard's 'Weekend', but it's not quite as breezy and exuberant as Godard. An admirable film that is more than it seems on the surface.
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MCT:May 8, 2008
8/10
This film has more on its agenda than mere thrills and supense, although those are plentiful. A Hitchcockian thriller in this sense, they don't make them like this any more (at least not in Hollywood), Red Lights relates the troubles of an overly domesticated man trying to regain his manhood and then some. But if there's a moral to this story it's that you should be careful what you wish for . . . or rather, you should be careful how you go about getting what you wish for. I was never sure where this film was going, which made it both interesting and entertaining; interesting being the key word, as this movie might make you rethink a few of your lifestyle choices, if not scare you into changing them; and that is a welcome change onto itself.
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