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gtr

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Feb 9, 2010, 2:27:44 PM2/9/10
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I see this on Sundance or IFC over the past year or so. A french movie
with this narrative.

A guy drives from Paris with his wife to pick up his kids to bring back
after summer vacation. He's drinking from early in the day, stops
numerous times to get a drink. His wife gets pissed and while he's in a
bar takes a cab to the train station, and on to the kids.

The guy gets drunker, picks up a hitch-hiker that turns out to be a
prison escapee. Fearing his attack our hero kills the convict.

He then finds his wife is in a hospital, has been raped and beaten. It
turns out she was assaulted by the guy he killed in the earlier scenes.

Anybody know the name of this thing?
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Feb 9, 2010, 10:45:50 PM2/9/10
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Argghhh. I have seen this film twice (or nearly twice).
They are traveling toward Bordeaux. The film is not new -
at least 20 years old. But I can't remember the name. At
the train station, the wife meets what seems to be a nice
man, who turns out to be the rapist.

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mikeos

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Feb 10, 2010, 5:04:59 AM2/10/10
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Francis A. Miniter wrote:
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> Argghhh. I have seen this film twice (or nearly twice). They are
> traveling toward Bordeaux. The film is not new - at least 20 years
> old. But I can't remember the name. At the train station, the wife
> meets what seems to be a nice man, who turns out to be the rapist.

Infuriating isn't it. I saw this on TV a couple of months ago and I
can't remember the title or the names of the actors.

Bill McClain

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Feb 10, 2010, 9:47:14 AM2/10/10
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Red Lights (2004): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365190/

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gtr

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Feb 10, 2010, 10:34:34 AM2/10/10
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On 2010-02-10 06:47:14 -0800, Bill McClain said:

> Red Lights (2004): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365190/

Excelent. Many thanks!

Francis A. Miniter

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Feb 10, 2010, 11:41:04 AM2/10/10
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Bill McClain wrote:
> On 2010-02-09, gtr <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>> I see this on Sundance or IFC over the past year or so. A french movie
>> with this narrative.
>
>> A guy drives from Paris with his wife to pick up his kids to bring back
>> after summer vacation. He's drinking from early in the day, stops
>> numerous times to get a drink. His wife gets pissed and while he's in a
>> bar takes a cab to the train station, and on to the kids.
>
>> The guy gets drunker, picks up a hitch-hiker that turns out to be a
>> prison escapee. Fearing his attack our hero kills the convict.
>
>> He then finds his wife is in a hospital, has been raped and beaten. It
>> turns out she was assaulted by the guy he killed in the earlier scenes.
>
>> Anybody know the name of this thing?
>
> Red Lights (2004): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365190/
>
> -Bill


Wonderful. My subconscious had had me look up the actor
Alain Delon, and of course, I found nothing. It was really
pointing to the actor Alain Dion, whose name I must have
seen in the credits of the film and for which I substituted
the well known actor Alain Delon.

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