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“It’s rare to feel the tension built inside a theater to the point where everyone is holding their breath, but ‘Red Rooms’ is a unique movie that defies expectations and keeps pulling the audience deeper into the dark abysm of human nature.”
118 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Pascal Plante. In French and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Red Rooms follows Kelly-Anne (Gariépy), a young woman who wakes up every morning to wait outside the courtroom to secure a seat at the high-profile trial of Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), a man charged with the murder of three teenage girls, with the gruesome videos of two of the crimes surfacing for sale online on the dark web. She finds herself bonding with a fellow voyeur, momentarily breaking her out of her loneliness, while also witnessing the emotional decline of the victims’ families. As the proceedings continue, it becomes increasingly difficult for Kelly-Anne to maintain the psychological and physical balance between her normal life and her morbid fixation with the accused killer, with her obsession reaching new lengths when the final piece of evidence reveals itself within reach.