En prenant le volant pour aller chercher ses enfants dans le camp de vacances où ils ont passé l'été, Stève sent qu'il est «entré dans le tunnel»... Il a déjà bu deux verres et ne rêve que du prochain. Il devine la réprobation de Nancy, sa femme. Même si depuis qu'ils ont quitté New York, ils n'échangent que des paroles banales. Peut-elle comprendre qu'il étouffe sur les rails de sa vie? Encore un bar, encore un verre. Cet homme, celui à qui il a voulu payer un coup et qui est maintenant dans sa voiture, lui le comprendra. C'est un fugitif, et alors?
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Go see the movie this book is based on
Oct 25 2004
By Andy Orrock
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French Director Cédric Kahn turned Georges Simenon's thrilling 2003 novel into 2004's "Red Lights," now showing at selected theaters nationwide. Both book and movie build suspense to a slow boil as protagonist Antoine drinks, drives, drinks...and drnks some more. As he does, resentment towards his more-successful wife Hélène builds and uncorks with bile.
The movie's casting is what makes the adaptation of Simenon's work so successful - Jean-Pierre Darroussin (Antoine) is not exactly movie-star handsome and we've got no problem envisioning him as the office drone. Carole Bouquet as Hélène is a different issue altogether - one of France's leading stage beauties, it's no wonder her character has met with more success.
After building suspensefully, I thought book and movie ended up on a bit of unlikely happenstance - three characters drawn together through two events. There are astronomical odds of these two things happening - coming out of the movie everyone was buzzing about the unlikeliness of this, which is too bad because that contrived turn of events was preceded by some wonderful movie-making and, in the case of Simenon's novel, some excellent writing.
The movie's casting is what makes the adaptation of Simenon's work so successful - Jean-Pierre Darroussin (Antoine) is not exactly movie-star handsome and we've got no problem envisioning him as the office drone. Carole Bouquet as Hélène is a different issue altogether - one of France's leading stage beauties, it's no wonder her character has met with more success.
After building suspensefully, I thought book and movie ended up on a bit of unlikely happenstance - three characters drawn together through two events. There are astronomical odds of these two things happening - coming out of the movie everyone was buzzing about the unlikeliness of this, which is too bad because that contrived turn of events was preceded by some wonderful movie-making and, in the case of Simenon's novel, some excellent writing.
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