Les Chambres rouges [Red Rooms] (Pascal Plante, 2023)

[flyonthewall2983]

Red Rooms was a pleasant surprise, in how tense everything is but gives way to its fascinating twists, a word I am loathe to use usually, but I found there to be some twists within itself that push the very fabric of cliches you find in these types of movies into a different light. Immediately questioning everyone and everything, and being replenished by maybe not the direct answer but the feelings behind the truth, behind the blank faces, and ultimately confronting an evil itself that is as clearly corrosive to those closest to this particular crime.

It’s also a kind of warning about human nature and how it all becomes monopolized and manipulated. By the media, by the ignorant masses of public given to whatever injustice they perceive. This is embodied in the main character, at least on the surface. Her own motivations do not read clear, even through to it’s perhaps too tidy of an ending but is at least in complete harmony with the choices Juliette Garièpe brings to the role to Kelly-Anne. Much credit to Pascal Plante for assembling this puzzle in a way that exudes our worst instinct about humanity, while keeping its heart beating true to what is still noble about it.

[Mr Sausage]

I didn't mind that Red Rooms had a tidy plot resolution, because for me the ambiguities were all in the main character's layered, fascinating psychological state than the court case at hand. There were so many ways the film could've opted for a flat, easy satire, and instead invested in a character whose mental state becomes harder to read the more we learn about her. A non-judgemental movie about an increasingly common fascination in our culture.

Did it just get released in America or something? I remember watching it last year.

[flyonthewall2983]

Just made available to stream, not in 4K yet but I will spring for it if it comes out (this was a rental).

[mfunk9786]

Red Rooms might be a blind buy. I saw a few strong reviews.

Stellar film.