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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.
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Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
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Always keep your eyes on the road
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At the first police roadblock, Jean-Pierre Daroussin throws his mobile phone out of his car. However, when he gets out of the car to berate the officers, there is no sign of the smashed phone on the road.
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Für Alina
Written by
Arvo Pärt
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Release Date:
3 March 2004 (France)
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$3,202,
22 August 2004
Gross USA:
$673,828
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$2,394,429
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1.85 : 1
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A decent but ultimately disappointing thriller. It feels like slow-moving imitation Clouzot, with elements from Les Diaboliques ("What really happened?"), The Wages of Fear (high tension on a long drive), and Quai des Orfevres (a similar plot point I don't want to reveal here).
With tighter editing, "Feux rouges" could have been a much stronger movie. It does contain a number of memorable scenes, especially those involving the protagonist and his second passenger. Not a bad film at all, but it doesn't deserve the rave reviews it has drawn from several major critics.
7/10