Red Eyes (film)

Red Eyes
FrenchLes Yeux rouges
Directed byYves Simoneau
Written byYves Simoneau
Produced byDoris Girard
StarringMarie Tifo
Pierre Curzi
Raymond Bouchard
CinematographyClaude LaRue
Edited byAndré Corriveau
Music byManeige
Production
company
Le Loup Blanc
Distributed byLes Films du Crépuscule
Release date
  • 1982 (1982)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Red Eyes (French: Les Yeux rouges) is a Canadian thriller drama film, directed by Yves Simoneau and released in 1982.[1] The film is a dramatization of the "automne chaud", a real-life series of voyeurism and sexual assault incidents in Quebec City in 1979 that culminated in the murder of young actress France Lachapelle.[2]

The film stars Marie Tifo as Marie-Louise, the film's version of Lachapelle, as well as Jean-Marie Lemieux, Pierre Curzi, Raymond Bouchard, Denise Proulx, Pierrette Robitaille, Rémy Girard, Gaston Lepage, Micheline Bernard, Denise Gagnon, Paul Hébert, Serge Thibodeau, Bob Walsh and Yves Bourque.

  1. ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 180.
  2. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Yeux rouges, Les – Film de Yves Simoneau". Films du Québec, August 15, 2021.