There’s something rather unsavoury about our collective fascination with true crime, and, in particular, with serial killers. The need to unpick the grisly details; the voracious appetite for atrocity podcasts and series – it all holds up a mirror to a less than flattering aspect of society.
It’s this morbid curiosity, taken to an obsessive extreme, that Canadian director Pascal Plante taps into with his chillingly accomplished third feature, Red Rooms. A stylish, unsettling blend of courtroom drama and psychological thriller with a touch of cyber-paranoia thrown in, this French-language film focuses not so much on the horrific crimes and the man on trial for them, but on a young woman whose curiosity about the case starts to consume her.
