Feux rouges (2004)

Director:

Cédric Kahn

Writers:

Georges Simenon (novel) and
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa (writer)

Release Date:

3 March 2004 (Belgium)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Always keep your eyes on the road

Plot:

Antoine and Helene drive to South France to return their kids from a holiday camp. The traffic is dense...

Plot Keywords:

Night | Killing | On The Road | Drunk Driver | Highway

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Jean-Pierre Darroussin	...	Antoine
Carole Bouquet	...	Hélène
Vincent Deniard	...	L'homme en cavale / Man on the Run
Alain Dion	...	Le collègue de bureau
Olivier Fornara	...	Le serveur de la brasserie
Damien Givelet	...	Le présentateur des actualités (on tv)
Philippe Ivancic	...	Le serveur quartier Antoine
Candide Joseph	...	La femme accidentée
Brigitte Pain	...	La serveuse du bar routier
Igor Skreblin	...	Le Croate au téléphone / Man Yelling into Phone
Fabrice Robert	...	Le barman du Nirvana
Micky Finn	...	Le Rocker Irlandais / Irish Rock Musician
Moussa Boucetta	...	L'employé gare de Tours
Thomas Germaine	...	Le gendarme du 1er barrage
Patrick Servoin	...	Le chef de Gare de Ste Maure

Also Known As:

Red Lights (International: English title) (USA) (literal English title)

Runtime:

France:105 min | USA:105 min | Argentina:106 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | Australia:M | Singapore:PG | France:U (with warning) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:Unrated | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Alicéléo

Goofs:

Continuity: The tiny hole in the forward facing side of the center rear view mirror (sensor for automatic headlight dimmer?) is on the passenger's side early in the film. In the last scene it's on the driver's side.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 20th IFP Independent Spirit Awards (2005) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Für Alina

The Red & The Black

Red Lights is like a bad dream you might have if you nodded off over the wheel during a long car journey, with the roar of the motorway and the crunch of tyres on gravel seeping into your subconscious. It's so ambient, it would work just as well as a radio play. En route to collecting their kids from summer camp, 'married alive' couple Antoine (Pierre-Darroussin) and Helene (Bouquet) bicker in the car, as Antoine accuses her of cramping his style. The only way this sad little man can assert himself is to pull over and slug whisky after whisky in every roadside bar. When his furious wife bails out to catch the train instead, it's the start of one of those Long Dark Nights of the Soul for both parties. 'I got sick of playing the good little doggie', Antoine tells his mysterious hitchhiker, in one of the movie's most memorable exchanges. 'You're like my doggie,' sneers his passenger. 'Always thirsty.' 'Where's your dog?' 'He's dead…' Based on the Georges Simenon novel, here's a dark little number, blackly comic, and as searing as the red neon lights that accompany each pit stop on the road to Hell.