Red Rooms (Les Chambres Rouges): Pascal Plante’s Serial Killer Thriller Earns Top Jury Prize at Fantasia Fest

July 30, 2023 by

Plante’s ‘Red Rooms’ Thriller Earns Top Prize

The serial killer thriller earned best feature, screenplay, performance and score prizes as Cheval Noir competition were handed out at America’s largest genre festival.

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Juliette Gariépy in ‘Red Rooms’ FILM SERVIS FESTIVAL KARLOVY VARY
Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms (Les Chambres Rouges), French-language thriller about a woman’s obsession with high-profile serial killer case, took top honors as the Fantasia Film Fest handed out its Cheval Noir competition prizes this weekend.

After opening Fantasia’s 27th edition, the Canadian psychological drama earned Cheval Noirs for best feature, best screenplay for Pascal Plante and best score for Dominique Plante. Red Rooms also earned lead Juliette Gariépy an outstanding performance award,

The Fantasia jury at America’s largest genre film festival, led by David Hewlett, also gave its best director prize to Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping for Femmes, while the trophy for best cinematography went to Zelda Adams and John Adams for Where The Devil Roams.
Oscar winner Nicolas Cage, set to receive a Cheval Noir career achievement award for his four-decade career, canceled his trip to Canada due to the SAG-AFTRA strike; he was also to premiere his latest film, Sympathy for the Devil.

Sympathy for the Devil reunites Cage with director Yuval Adler with Joel Kinnaman after The Secrets We Keep.

Fantasia, set to run until Aug. 9, will close with We Are Zombies, from the Canadian cult film collective RKSS, led by François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell. The film stars Megan Peta Hill, Alexandre Nachi and Derek Johns.

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