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Road
Games
2015
Road Games is a thriller
set in the French
countryside where
Englishman Jack (Andrew
Simpson) is hitchhiking
along a notorious stretch
of road where a serial
killer is said to be at
work. Having no luck
getting anyone to pull
over for him, he
eventually comes across a
couple fighting in a car,
in which Véronique
(Joséphine de La Baume)
gets out and leaves the
car before it drives off.
After spending the night
sleeping the in scrub, the
next day, Jack and
Véronique finally catch a
break when a local Grizard
(Frédéric Pierrot) pulls
over and picks them up
although Véronique is none
too happy about this.
Grizard tells Jack that
there is a strike on and
the ferries back to
England have all stopped
and offers to set he and
Véronique up for the
night. Grizard introduces
them to his American
artist wife Mary (Barbara
Crampton), who seems
unsettled about something,
but they have dinner
although they have to
improvise as Jack is a
vegetarian. Later that
night, Véronique sleeps
with Jack, but in the
morning, she is gone and
Grizard hastily tries to
get Jack to leave despite
the ferry strike. Jack is
then hit over the head and
tied up by a local road
kill collector (Féodor
Atkine) and forced to eat
meat and then bundled up
in his truck from which
Jack escapes back to
Grizard's house where he
finds Véronique tied up.
He helps her escape, but
Grizard, Mary and the road
kill collector are close
behind, but maybe they
aren't the real problem...
Frustrating but enticing
thriller that maybe puts
too many eggs in the
basket and ends up with a
tangled plot that doesn't
really work. The addition
of the road kill collector
is too confusing and
doesn't seem to add much
except a red herring and
to the running time. I
think the best that can be
said is that it's an
almost movie. And I like
Joséphine de La Baume from
stuff like Kiss of the
Damned and Listen Up
Philip, so I wasn't going
to miss this movie.
Josephine
de la Baume film
clips (collages below)
   
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