Red Rooms, director Pascal Plante's 118-minute French-Canadian thriller, does something almost no genre film bothers to attempt: it portrays technology accurately. The dark web, online poker, and digital anonymity are not treated as magic plot devices. They function the way they actually function.
That technical honesty is not the headline. It is the floor. What Plante builds on top of it, anchored by Juliette Gariépy's performance as Kelly-Anne, is a tension architecture that rarely lets you breathe. The serial killer framework is almost secondary to the psychological unease Gariépy generates just by existing on screen.
The full review at The Verge gets into why the poker sequences work as hard as the courtroom scenes, and what Plante does structurally that most thriller directors skip entirely. Worth reading for the craft breakdown, not just the verdict.
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