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RED ROOMS Review: Riveting Fusion of Arthouse Thriller That Resonates

Quebec filmmaker Pascal Plante, known for Fake Tattoos and the critically hailed Nadia, Butterfly, shifts his creative gaze to darker territories in his latest offering, Red Rooms, which provides an intriguing spin on the ubiquitous serial killer genre. The story...

RED ROOMS Interview, Part 2: Pascal Plante Talks the Music and Ethics of His Thriller

In part 1 of our interview, Red Rooms filmmaker Pascal Plante talked extensively about how individual scenes were designed and shot. In part 2, we got more into the musical score and the ethics of making his thriller. Red Rooms...

RED ROOMS Interview, Part 1: Pascal Plante Talks the Craft of Making a Thriller

In Martin Kudlac's review of Red Rooms, he writes about how the film draws on Michael Haneke, its "enigmatic" protagonist Kelly-Anne (Juliette GariƩpy), and the ways it repeatedly "bucks genre expectations" as a film ostensibly about a serial killer. More...

RED ROOMS Trailer: Pascal Plante's Thriller Arrives in U.S. Theaters This September

A model becomes obsessed with a high-profile murder trial.   Pascal Plante's thriller, Red Rooms, starts its U.S. theatrical release on Friday, September 6th in New York at the IFC Center. The official trailer was just released for it, check...

2024 Canadian Screen Awards: BLACKBERRY, HUMANIST VAMPIRE, And INFINITY POOL Rack up Massive Nominations

I'm a bad Canadian. Technically, I'm a bad Canadian resident, but that's a story for another day. I'm a bad Canadian because until today I've not really given much attention to the Canadian Screen Awards. I can always say that...

Karlovy Vary 2023 Review: RED ROOMS, Unsettling Snuff Cyber Thriller Revamps Serial Killer Genre Through Female Lens

Quebec's own Pascal Plante directs a genre-blurring cyber thriller that unflinchingly delves into the dark world of morbid fascination, surveillance capitalism, and voyeurism.

Berlinale 2018 Review: FAKE TATTOOS, Bearing the Marks of a Great Teenage Drama

Whilst not Pascal Plante's first feature film, having previously made doc La génération porn in 2014, Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages) is the director's first step into feature-length drama. And it's quite the first step - one that definitely carries...