Pascal Plante – Les chambres rouges AKA Red Rooms (2023)

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.
An element of the film I found most intriguing were the various people who were defending Chevalier. Whether it’s the very misguided Clementine, or even his defense lawyer, its uncomfortable to hear people supporting someone who so obviously did the crime. Yet there are people out there like this, so I think its nice to spotlight them. There were a ton of parallels between Clem in particular, as the Manson followers who stood outside his trial. So there’s a bit of catharsis that reveals itself as both Clem and Kelly-Anne are forced to reckon with their feelings as more evidence is unveiled.Another disturbing element is just how accessible your information is online. Kelly-Anne isn’t doing anything “hacker-level” yet she’s able to get retrieve so much information, all with tools readily accessible to all of us. In fact, all of the dark web stuff being true to life is what makes it all so scary. While this film may be fictional, these types of things are going on and combating them feels like a near impossible task. Red Rooms manages to be very grounded, while dealing with content that can easily be turned unbelievable (see Unfriended: Dark Web).
Red Rooms is an extremely uncomfortable watch but in the day and age of so many people glorifying serial killers, it feels very relevant. And I should state outright that, despite the very disturbing content, there’s not much that’s shown. So don’t go into this expecting some kind of new wave French horror that goes hog wild. This is a much more subtle character piece that relies on its performances and splendid camerawork to really make this standout.
By Tyler Nichols
July 21, 2023

Red.Rooms.2023.FRENCH.1080p.WEB-DL.H264-Slay3R.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 58 min
Size: 	5.86 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1616x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	3:2
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	6 701 kb/s
BPP: 	0.160
Audio
#1:  	French 5.1ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s (AC3 VFQ)

https://nitro.download/view/E1085FAA678D379/Red.Rooms.2023.FRENCH.1080p.WEB-DL.H264-Slay3R.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English