While it starts off as typically overwrought melodrama, with a couple shouting in each other's face (making the first half of the film fairly dull), it subsequently turns into a reasonably gripping thriller - highlighted by a couple of effective shock moments - with an especially ironic conclusion pretty much in the Claude Chabrol mode. The acting of the two leads is fine, Jean-Pierre Darroussin making the most of his unsympathetic character while Carole Bouquet, appropriately, plays a character named Helene (after a number of heroines from Chabrol movies); however, there is some unintentional hilarity during the husband's boozing odyssey, first by encountering a grating Irish rocker in a bar and later being beaten up by an escaped convict to whom he gives a lift in his car!
Review of Red Lights
