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Red Lights / Feux rouges (2004) [Artificial Eye #285] [Re-UP]

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Red Lights / Feux rouges (2004) [Artificial Eye #285] [Re-UP]

Red Lights (2004) [Artificial Eye]
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:41:55 | 7,86 Gb
Audio: French AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Thriller, Mystery

Director: Cédric Kahn
Stars: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard

Cedric Khan's tense Hitchcockian thriller stars Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Carole Bouquet as a couple who unwittingly embark on a dangerous and terrifying journey into the night. On the hottest day of the year Antoine and Helene hit the road destined for the south of France. But the oppressive heat and traffic gridlock take their toll on Antoine's frazzled nerves and, as he attempts to cool off with one ice cold beer after another, tensions between the bickering couple are pushed to boiling point. As night draws in Antoine stops off at yet another bar, but returns to the car to find Helene missing. Panic stricken, he embarks on a desperate search, only to find events spiralling beyond his control with horrifying consequences…


This surprising and disturbing French thriller works as both a detailed examination of urban marriage and a creepy road movie. Director-cowriter Kahn approaches his films with such unflinching honesty that he really gets into our heads!

Red Lights / Feux rouges (2004) [Artificial Eye #285] [Re-UP]

Antoine and Helene (Darroussin and Bouquet) are a frazzled couple who, on the hottest day of the year, are driving to the opposite end of the country to collect their two kids from summer camp. Tensions are high and patience is short. Antoine keeps stopping for shots of whiskey, and during one break Helene abandons him, leaving a note to say she's taking the train. What follows is a wrenching odyssey as Antoine tries to catch up with Helene's train, then has a scary encounter with a stranger (Deniard). But even this doesn't prepare him for what he discovers next.

Red Lights / Feux rouges (2004) [Artificial Eye #285] [Re-UP]

Kahn captures a sense of modern chaos so perfectly that we never doubt this couple–they love each other and yet can't stand to be near each other, simply because life has become so unbearably stressful. Delays, traffic jams and other urban annoyances combine to push them to the brink … and then the (somewhat contrived) events that follow push them right over the edge, where they finally approach a sense of perspective.

Red Lights / Feux rouges (2004) [Artificial Eye #285] [Re-UP]

Darroussin and Bouquet are excellent–we can identify with both of them, laughing in recognition while seeing details that give us insight into these people, their reactions and potential actions as well. As their relationship is strained to the breaking point, we really feel their sense of cynicism, paranoia and fear. And then the writers exploit that with a chilling plot twist that seems to come out of nowhere to jolt us awake (like Catherine Breillat's A Ma Soeur or Gaspar Noe's Irreversible). What follows is astonishingly gripping and moving, especially an extended scene in which Antoine uses the phone to sort out what has turned into a fiercely unsettling mystery. This is a film about rash decisions and sudden events that can change life in an instant–for good or bad. Or maybe bringing good from bad.
Red Lights / Feux rouges (2004) [Artificial Eye #285] [Re-UP]

Following his great success with the acclaimed Roberto Succo and his earlier L’Ennui, Cédric Kahn’s new film RED LIGHTS, based on a Georges Simenon novel, was shown In Competition at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.
Summer in Paris. Antoine (masterfully played by Guédiguian regular Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and Hélène (Carole Bouquet) are driving to the south to pick up their children at summer camp.

Red Lights / Feux rouges (2004) [Artificial Eye #285] [Re-UP]

The roads are packed with heavy holiday traffic and miles of gridlock is expected. Antoine, annoyed by his wife’s running late, tries to cool himself with beer after beer. By the time they hit the road, he has topped the beers with whisky but tries to conceal his drunkenness. Traffic slows and tempers flare. Antoine accuses his wife of not treating him like a real man. At each forced crawl and stop they break into accusations. He takes random turns and continues drinking in small town bars and pubs. The roads are busy with holiday goers and the police. A brief radio announcement reveals that a dangerous killer has escaped prison. The couple continue quarrelling. When she is temporarily left alone in the car and worried by Antoine’s inebriated state, his wife decides to go her separate way and to look for alternative transport. Finding her gone, Antoine panics for a moment, but soon settles back to enjoy himself like ‘a real man’. It’s a long night and every anonymous bar sign and neon light invites him for one more drink. He picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be the escaped killer and who, unbeknown to him, already just encountered his wife. The events start moving out of Antoine’s control and turn into a night of horror. The film climaxes the next day when he wakes up in the middle of nowhere and goes looking for his wife…

Red Lights / Feux rouges (2004) [Artificial Eye #285] [Re-UP]

The original novel was set in the United States but Kahn and his co-screenwriter Laurence Ferreira-Barbosa moved the location to France. They stripped down the book to the core and concentrated all the action on the two leads. As in his previous films, Kahn prefers to tell a gripping story: in the confines of the car where the couple are forced to contend with each other’s presence and the tension slowly builds, reinforced by the dark tones of the music (Nocturnes by Debussy). The human side of the tragedy is central to this story: as the night progresses the primitive fear of Antoine colours the film. The ride becomes a nightmare in a world of anonymous roads, cars and neon lights. Nothing is what it seems. Kahn deliberately created a sense of unreality through the film and shot all the night car scenes in the studio.

Red Lights / Feux rouges (2004) [Artificial Eye #285] [Re-UP]

However, Kahn needed strong actors to play the couple and preferred well-known stars who had never played together before. Especially the actor who would play Antoine would have to go through very strong emotions. He sent the script to Jean-Pierre Darroussin, without telling him his partner would be the beautiful actress Carole Bouquet. She had signed on the project at a very early stage. Darroussin, who normally plays simple characters and Bouquet (known for portraying elegance and sophistication) may seem an unlikely couple, but in RED LIGHTS manage to overcome their differences in a brilliant way.
Red Lights / Feux rouges (2004) [Artificial Eye #285] [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Interviews with: Cédric Kahn (21:31), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (21:21), Carole Bouquet (21:19) (In French with English subs)
- Trailer
- Filmographies

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