Red Lights ( Feux rouges )

Red Lights (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Feux rouges
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Cédric Kahn

Written By:
Cédric Kahn
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa

Actors:
Jean-Pierre Darroussin ..... Antoine
Carole Bouquet ..... Hélène
Vincent Deniard ..... L'homme en cavale/Man on the Run
Charline Paul ..... La serveuse du café/Waitress
Jean-Pierre Gos ..... L'inspecteur/Inspector
Sava Lolov ..... Le médecin/Young Doctor
Igor Skreblin ..... L'homme au téléphone/Man Yelling into Phone
Lara Al-Jammal ..... La directrice de la colonie de vacances (voice)
Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis:

This brilliant, sinister French thriller is a twisty road movie in which every sign points toward catastrophe. As night falls during the journey of an unhappily married couple from Paris to Bordeaux, the clogged highway takes them into descending levels of psychosexual hell. Jean-Pierre Darroussin's Antoine is a mousy, balding insurance salesman who hates his job, and resents his more successful wife, a sleek corporate lawyer. The movie is a study of male passive-aggression that comes up with a malicious Hemingway-esque solution to Antoine's masculinity crisis. When his wife, fed up with his drinking on the road, deserts him to take the train, he picks up a hitchhiker he knows might be a dangerous escaped convict, and courts the redemptive (and grisly) male rite of passage he's been seeking. Following Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend" and Claire Denis's "Friday Night," "Red Lights" uses the traffic jam as a potent screen metaphor for something bigger.

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 often they stop. After a fierce discussion they split and both have to face great danger during the night.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 26 June, 2006.

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