For most of the runtime of Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms, we are unsure about what exactly Kelly-Anne, our protagonist, is up to, let alone the reason behind her activities. Yet, the film is incredibly engaging from the opening minute itself. In fact, the ambiguity about the central character, which is certainly a deliberate creative choice, works in the film’s favor. Even when Red Rooms ends, you are unsure about the true nature of Kelly-Anne, which ensures you will be spending so many hours on Reddit. I’m going to take a swing at simplifying things and, hopefully, helping you understand what’s really going on in Red Rooms.
Spoilers Ahead
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Movie?
In the still of the night, Kelly-Anne wakes up in a back alley. After a walk in the streets of Montreal, she ends up at the courthouse, awaiting a murder trial to begin.
Spoilers Ahead
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Movie?
In the still of the night, Kelly-Anne wakes up in a back alley. After a walk in the streets of Montreal, she ends up at the courthouse, awaiting a murder trial to begin.
- 1/24/2024
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
The 2023 edition of Fantasia has come to an end and let me tell you: this year was a good one. From personal looks at the dark web to Indian demons, there are plenty of interesting stories to latch onto. I attended virtually and had a wonderful time with the festival, getting to see a bevy of new favorites. I should state upfront that there were several heavy-hitters from the festival that I was unfortunately unable to see due to unforeseen circumstances. So if it’s not here, that’s probably why. Now let’s take a look at some of the best that the festival had to offer.
Aporia (dir: Jared Moshe)
The concept of being able to shoot a gun into the past, therefore changing the future, is already enough to have most people’s attention. But add wonderful performances from Judy Greer and Edi Gathegi and you’ve...
Aporia (dir: Jared Moshe)
The concept of being able to shoot a gun into the past, therefore changing the future, is already enough to have most people’s attention. But add wonderful performances from Judy Greer and Edi Gathegi and you’ve...
- 8/13/2023
- by Tyler Nichols
- JoBlo.com
Plot: The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance.
Review: There’s a certain level of expectation present when Fantasia selects the opening film for their festival. It sets the tone for the rest of the lineup of films so my hopes for Red Rooms were very high. Add to that the fact that the French (even of the Canadian variety) know how to do horror like no other, and I was very excited. Red Rooms hits a nerve almost immediately, diving deep into the trial of serial killer, Ludovic Chevalier. They set up the evidence in such a disturbing way, all without showing you anything.
Review: There’s a certain level of expectation present when Fantasia selects the opening film for their festival. It sets the tone for the rest of the lineup of films so my hopes for Red Rooms were very high. Add to that the fact that the French (even of the Canadian variety) know how to do horror like no other, and I was very excited. Red Rooms hits a nerve almost immediately, diving deep into the trial of serial killer, Ludovic Chevalier. They set up the evidence in such a disturbing way, all without showing you anything.
- 7/21/2023
- by Tyler Nichols
- JoBlo.com
Juliette Gariépy in Red Rooms. Director Pascal Plante: 'I do think about violence and its consequences. I prefer more psychological horror films which crawl under your skin and affect you' Photo: Courtesy of Kviff According to his research Red Rooms (Les Chambres rouges) director Pascal Plante has discovered than there are more than 5000 films or series out there listed under the category of “serial killer”.
The Quebec filmmaker - whose feature will open this year's Fantasia Film Festival - believes what he describes as “morbid fascination” with them has reached some kind of peak with the current enduring appeal of true crime series. He suggests his film is part cyber thriller, part courtroom drama, and almost anti the serial killer genre. It focusses on the trial of Ludovico Chevalier (played in a wordless performance by Maxwell McCabe-Lokos) who is accused of murdering teenage girls and then selling the videos of his exploits.
The Quebec filmmaker - whose feature will open this year's Fantasia Film Festival - believes what he describes as “morbid fascination” with them has reached some kind of peak with the current enduring appeal of true crime series. He suggests his film is part cyber thriller, part courtroom drama, and almost anti the serial killer genre. It focusses on the trial of Ludovico Chevalier (played in a wordless performance by Maxwell McCabe-Lokos) who is accused of murdering teenage girls and then selling the videos of his exploits.
- 7/9/2023
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A central character in Pascal Plante’s disturbing thriller is a mousy-looking man, the sort of anonymous figure you wouldn’t give a second look, on trial for the brutal murders of three teenage girls, which he broadcast live on the dark web. And he’s not even the scariest person onscreen in Red Rooms (Les Chambres rouges).
That would be Kelly-Anne, played to chillingly icy perfection by Juliette Gariépy. For reasons never explained in the film — showcased at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival — successful fashion model Kelly-Anne has become obsessed with Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, personifying the banality of evil), whose case is being heard in a Montreal courtroom.
Although the killer is masked in two of the snuff videos (the third has gone unfound), there’s a preponderance of evidence against Chevalier, who sits alone in a booth like a modern-day Adolf Eichmann. He’s all the...
That would be Kelly-Anne, played to chillingly icy perfection by Juliette Gariépy. For reasons never explained in the film — showcased at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival — successful fashion model Kelly-Anne has become obsessed with Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, personifying the banality of evil), whose case is being heard in a Montreal courtroom.
Although the killer is masked in two of the snuff videos (the third has gone unfound), there’s a preponderance of evidence against Chevalier, who sits alone in a booth like a modern-day Adolf Eichmann. He’s all the...
- 7/5/2023
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Red Rooms’ Review: A Disturbingly Brilliant Psychological Horror – Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival
The unseen and the obscene are the subject of Pascal Plante’s disturbingly brilliant psychological horror Red Rooms, which takes an overused genre — the serial killer movie — and an often-misused technique — dark Lynchian surrealism — and somehow alchemizes the two into something new and original. It’s strong meat for sure, but word-of-mouth cult status beckons and a healthy nightlife on the genre circuit is assured.
Much of the plot has already happened by the time the film starts. As the crimson opening credits roll over Vincent Biron’s stark, steely blue lensing, a young woman named Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) wakes up and takes a bus to a tall, sterile building. Inside, the frame becomes alive with color as Kelly-Anne passes through security and takes her seat in a bright, white, fluorescent-lit courtroom. On trial is Ludovic...
Much of the plot has already happened by the time the film starts. As the crimson opening credits roll over Vincent Biron’s stark, steely blue lensing, a young woman named Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) wakes up and takes a bus to a tall, sterile building. Inside, the frame becomes alive with color as Kelly-Anne passes through security and takes her seat in a bright, white, fluorescent-lit courtroom. On trial is Ludovic...
- 7/4/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
In “Red Rooms,” Pascal Plante didn’t want to show explicit images of violent killings. He wanted to talk about them instead.
“During the pandemic, we have been spending all this time in front of our screens, consuming violent images in a very detached way. Realizing that led me to the dark web, basically,” he tells Variety.
His “sort of cyber thriller and sort of courtroom drama” – world premiering at Karlovy Vary Film Festival before opening Canada’s genre fest Fantasia – revolves around the high-profile trial of Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), accused of murdering teenage girls and selling videos of his exploits.
“It was very deliberate not to show it. I have been listening to crime-related podcasts and they feel even creepier. This way, the audience almost wants to see them. In a weird, morbid way,” he says.
“This film is about the psychological consequences of extreme violence. I really...
“During the pandemic, we have been spending all this time in front of our screens, consuming violent images in a very detached way. Realizing that led me to the dark web, basically,” he tells Variety.
His “sort of cyber thriller and sort of courtroom drama” – world premiering at Karlovy Vary Film Festival before opening Canada’s genre fest Fantasia – revolves around the high-profile trial of Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), accused of murdering teenage girls and selling videos of his exploits.
“It was very deliberate not to show it. I have been listening to crime-related podcasts and they feel even creepier. This way, the audience almost wants to see them. In a weird, morbid way,” he says.
“This film is about the psychological consequences of extreme violence. I really...
- 7/1/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
The 27th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to commence from July 20 through August 9, 2023, taking place at the Concordia Hall Cinema, with additional screens at the Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée.
The festival’s second wave of programming is here, bringing with it announcements of the opening film, serial killer thriller Red Rooms, the Canadian premiere of Talk to Me, and a slew of new world premieres and festival screenings.
The festival’s complete lineup will be announced in early July. In the meantime, Fantasia reveals a selected second wave of titles and happenings. From the press release:
Red Rooms
Coming to christen Fantasia’s 27th edition days after its Karlovy-Vary competition debut, Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges) is the haunting third feature from celebrated Quebec filmmaker Pascal Plante. The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed.
The festival’s second wave of programming is here, bringing with it announcements of the opening film, serial killer thriller Red Rooms, the Canadian premiere of Talk to Me, and a slew of new world premieres and festival screenings.
The festival’s complete lineup will be announced in early July. In the meantime, Fantasia reveals a selected second wave of titles and happenings. From the press release:
Red Rooms
Coming to christen Fantasia’s 27th edition days after its Karlovy-Vary competition debut, Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges) is the haunting third feature from celebrated Quebec filmmaker Pascal Plante. The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed.
- 6/8/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The 27th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to run from from July 20th through August 9th at the Concordia Hall Cinema in Montreal, with additional screens at the Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée. Last month, they announced the first wave of titles that will be screening this year, and now the second wave of titles has been unveiled!
With this second wave announcement, we learn that the film chosen to open this edition of Fantasia is Pascal Plante’s serial killer thriller Red Rooms. Also in the line-up are the Nicolas Cage / Joel Kinnaman thriller Sympathy for the Devil, the Australian horror film Talk to Me, the Ukrainian screenlife thriller Stay Online (which was shot against the backdrop of the real Russian invasion), the anime Kurayukaba, the body-swapping alien tale The Becomers, the AI horror film Romi, Joe Lynch’s H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Suitable Flesh,...
With this second wave announcement, we learn that the film chosen to open this edition of Fantasia is Pascal Plante’s serial killer thriller Red Rooms. Also in the line-up are the Nicolas Cage / Joel Kinnaman thriller Sympathy for the Devil, the Australian horror film Talk to Me, the Ukrainian screenlife thriller Stay Online (which was shot against the backdrop of the real Russian invasion), the anime Kurayukaba, the body-swapping alien tale The Becomers, the AI horror film Romi, Joe Lynch’s H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Suitable Flesh,...
- 6/8/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Make room in the bullpen: There’s a new Law & Order: Svu detective on the case.
Molly Burnett (Days of Our Lives, Queen of the South) has been cast as Det. Grace Muncy ahead of the NBC procedural’s upcoming Season 24, TVLine has learned.
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Details about the recurring role are scarce, but we hear that Muncy has experience working with gangs,...
Molly Burnett (Days of Our Lives, Queen of the South) has been cast as Det. Grace Muncy ahead of the NBC procedural’s upcoming Season 24, TVLine has learned.
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Details about the recurring role are scarce, but we hear that Muncy has experience working with gangs,...
- 7/26/2022
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
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