Red Lights

Georges Simenon was a great novellist and i think many of the novel could be adapted to fab movie. This specific movie has a great musical score and vibe but the story runs out a bit empty.

I think the fugitive deserved a more menacing actor than this Vincent Deniard, but I found little else to complain about. You can tell Red Lights is a Simenon adaptation because it's such a well devised drama/thriller, with such good characterizations and fresh ideas. It boasts some nifty camerawork and a nice soundtrack, as well. Editing is tight: One scene shows about 20 consecutive phonecalls being made, which I thought was gutsy. Even then, the film doesn't lose any of its rhythm.

Despite its unlikeable characters, this has a curious dreamy quality which somehow lifts it above a bog standard thriller. The classical score is good too.

"Cédric Kahn's latest finds an elaborate metaphor for a man's frustrated existence in the highways of France." - Ed Gonzalez

A languishing thriller that never takes off as such, and by no means (as reported) does it have Hitchcockian suspense. Hitchcock built a suspense-tingling atmosphere brick by brick, whereas Red Lights doesn't do anything right. The movie did manage to engage me, but only mildly, and not for too long.

Excellent movie. More people need to seek it out.