| Feux Rouges (Red Lights) 2004 |
"A nail biting, dangerous high speed falling out. Fasten your seat belts, it's a bumpy road!" - John Downs - Rolling Scone |
On a long evening road trip to pick up the kids from summer camp, the parents make a wrong turn into the County of Misery. Drunk and reckless driving, domestic arguments, assault and murder change their lives forever. Take an ordinary situation: a husband and his wife (Jean-Pierre Darroussin, also starring in Ah ! Si J'Etais Riche, and Carole Bouquet), stuck in holiday traffic, arguing in their car. Add too much alcohol and an escaped fugitive. The result is a very intense and dark thriller, which, at its heart, is an exploration of intimacy, love through harsh times with maybe, redemption at the end of the road. Darroussin, onscreen in nearly every shot, carries the film as a man in a state of perpetual panic, physically destroying himself. Bouquet is beautiful, powerful and frail, as a wife who is going through hell. Kahn skillfully combines absurdity, dry humor, and Hitchcockian suspense to portray a marriage whose false insurance is about to be shattered. With music by Claude Debussy. |
