Friday, October 12, 2012

Red Lights 2004


Red Lights (2004)      It’s the end of the summer holiday in France, Antoine and Helene leave after work to drive south to pick up their son and daughter from camp.  Antoine is an alcoholic, he has three beers while waiting for his wife, he leaves after dinner supposedly to gas up the car but he gets whiskey instead.  Traffic is heavy and there are lots of accidents at this time of year.  Antoine stops at a bar along the way to drink more, Helene is getting increasingly angry.  He drives further and stops at another bar, Helene tells him she will take the car herself and continue the trip alone but he takes the keys.  He comes back to the car but she's not in the car?  In addition to all that is already going on, there are police roadblocks searching for an escaped fugitive!
     You want to yank Antoine out of the car (plus beat him up) so Helene can continue the trip by herself.  Antoine is useless and a danger to them and others as a drunken driver.  You don’t know where this is going and it keeps your interest until the end.  4* (I really liked this movie)

105 min, Crime, directed by Cedric Kahn with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard, Alain Dion, Olivier Fornara, Damien Givelet.

Note:  Blockbuster 3 ½*, imdb 6.9 out of 10, 83% critic 62% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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