Red Rooms (2024)
Director: Pascal Plante Run Time: 118 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2023
Starring: Élisabeth Locas, Juliette Gariépy, Laurie Babin, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Natalie Tannous
Country: Canada
Language: French with English subtitles
About the film:
World Premiere, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Winner of the Cheval Noir Award for Best Film at the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival.
Kelly-Anne wakes up every morning by the courthouse to secure a seat at the high-profile trial of Ludovic Chevalier, a serial killer she is obsessed with. As days go by, the young woman bonds with another groupie which momentarily breaks her out of her loneliness. But as the proceedings drag on and she spends more time in the courtroom with the victims’ families, Kelly-Anne finds it increasingly difficult to maintain her psychological balance and assume her morbid fixation with the killer. She will then do whatever it takes to get her hands on the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance.
About the filmmaker:
Pascal Plante is a Montreal-based filmmaker whose latest narrative feature–Nadia, Butterfly (2020)—screened at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. After his graduation from Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Pascal co-founded the production company Nemesis Films, through which he directed numerous short films including Blast Beat (2018), Blue-Eyed Blonde (2015), and Nonna (2016). His first narrative feature, a punk romance titled Fake Tattoos (2017), competed at the the Berlin International Film Festival in 2018. Red Rooms (2024) is his third narrative feature.
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