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* MoralSociopathy: The most likely explanation for Kelly-Anne's behavior. She has some traits of TheSociopath: she appears [[LackOfEmpathy devoid of empathy]]; she has no strong emotional reactions even to otherwise ''very'' distressing content and feels nothing about worsening a grieving family's pain; she is capable of detaching and is highly intelligent, thriving under high-pressure circumstances; she behaves in a way that most people around her find repellant. However, she is ultimately revealed to be using these traits for some form of good or at least not evil, though it's left ambiguous. [[spoiler:She's looking for Camille's SnuffTape so that Chevalier will plead guilty to her murder. This means that she ensures Camille gets justice, but she still watches the tape herself and breaks in and gives it to Camille's mother rather than to someone else, and it's heavily implied that she keeps her own copy of it afterwards.]]
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* MysteriousPast: We learn hardly anything about Kelly-Anne, and she refuses everyone's attempts to question or understand her.
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* LawProcedural: Played with. The CourtroomAntics are viewed by Kelly-Anne and Clementine, but the main drama is Kelly-Anne's own reactions and her strange responses to the case.
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This is Pascal Plante's third film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Plante
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''Red Rooms'' (''Les chambres rouges'') is a 2023 French-Canadian film written and directed by Pascal Plante (his debut). It's about a mysterious model, Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) who becomes obsessed with the trial of Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell [=McCabe=]-Lokos), a SerialKiller accused of torturing and murdering three schoolgirls and distributing the videos online in UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}}.
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''Red Rooms'' (''Les chambres rouges'') is a 2023 French-Canadian film written and directed by Pascal Plante (his debut). Plante. It's about a mysterious model, Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) who becomes obsessed with the trial of Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell [=McCabe=]-Lokos), a SerialKiller accused of torturing and murdering three schoolgirls and distributing the videos online in UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}}.
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* CruelToBeKind: It's suggested that [[spoiler:Kelly-Anne plays the SnuffFilm for Clementine so that Clementine will realize Chevalier is guilty and go home]], which is what happens.
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* CreepyLonerGirl: Kelly-Anne is implied to have a privileged existence because she's very intelligent and [[BeautyIsBest beautiful]], but she has no friends or family. She obsesses over the Chevalier trial, has an extremely rigid and structured life, and is only ever shown speaking to her agent or Clementine, who is a more overt example of an IneffectualLoner from a rough background, while Kelly-Anne isn't given such an easy explanation.
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* CreepyLonerGirl: Kelly-Anne is implied to have has a privileged existence because she's very intelligent and [[BeautyIsBest beautiful]], but she has no friends or family. She obsesses over the Chevalier trial, has an extremely rigid and structured life, and is only ever shown speaking to her agent or Clementine, who is a more overt example of an IneffectualLoner from a rough background, while Kelly-Anne isn't given such an easy explanation.
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* MonsterFangirl: Invoked numerous times as the reason Kelly-Anne and other women are at the trial. Subverted by Clementine, who genuinely believes that Chevalier is innocent, and deconstructed by Kelly-Anne. [[spoiler:While she's ostensibly working towards a different and more noble goal, her motivations remain unclear and she seems obsessed with Chevalier even if she was trying to put him in prison and find Camille's tape.]]
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* CreepyLonerGirl: Kelly-Anne is implied to have a privileged existence because she's very intelligent and [[BeautyIsBest beautiful]], but she has no friends or family. She obsesses over the Chevalier trial, has an extremely rigid and structured life, and is only ever shown speaking to her agent or Clementine, who is a more overt example of an IneffectualLoner from a rough background, while Kelly-Anne isn't given such an easy explanation.
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''Red Rooms'' (''Les chambres rouges'') is a 2023 French-Canadian film written and directed by Pascal Plante (his debut). It's about a mysterious model, Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) who becomes obsessed with the trial of Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell [=McCabe=]-Lokos), a SerialKiller accused of torturing and murdering three schoolgirls and distributing the videos online.
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* SnuffFilm: Chevalier is accused of making these. [[spoiler:Kelly-Anne buys and watches the video of his final victim, Camille, in the closing minutes.]]
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* SnuffFilm: Chevalier is accused of making these. [[spoiler:Kelly-Anne buys and watches the video of his final victim, Camille, in the closing minutes.]]]]
* TheVoiceless: Though Kelly-Anne watches him obsessively, Chevalier is never heard speaking.
* TheVoiceless: Though Kelly-Anne watches him obsessively, Chevalier is never heard speaking.
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: Deconstructed. The movie asks how much the ending ''does'' change anything. [[spoiler:Kelly-Anne has secured Chevalier's conviction, and seems to have been working towards that goal all along. However, her behavior is still shown to have been deeply traumatizing for the victims' families and, while Kelly-Anne has secured Chevalier's conviction, it was likely he would have been found guilty already. Does the end justifies the means or not?]]
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* ShoutOut: Kelly-Anne's ScreenName is [[Literature/TheLadyOfShalott The Lady of Shalott.]]
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* ShoutOut: Kelly-Anne's ScreenName is [[Literature/TheLadyOfShalott The Lady of Shalott.LadyOfShalott.]]
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* CunningPeoplePlayPoker: Kelly-Anne is suggested to be very intelligent and, while she makes money from modeling, her InfiniteSupplies are implied to come from the poker games she bets on.
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* ShoutOut: Kelly-Anne's ScreenName is [[Literature/TheLadyOfShalott The Lady of Shalott.]]
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* MoralityPet: While Kelly-Anne resists any attempt to open up about herself, she shows kindness to Clementine, paying for her squash racket and her food, and giving the squash racket to her.
* PetTheDog: Kelly-Anne is extremely patient and supportive when teaching Clementine squash, not getting annoyed with her even when Clementine herself gets frustrated.
* PetTheDog: Kelly-Anne is extremely patient and supportive when teaching Clementine squash, not getting annoyed with her even when Clementine herself gets frustrated.
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* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Played for horror. Chevalier's last victim is a high school student, Camille, who was kidnapped (and presumably murdered) in her school uniform. [[spoiler:At the climax of her obsession, Kelly-Anne wears a somewhat revealing school uniform to court and makes sure that Chevalier sees her, getting thrown out and devastating Camille's already-grieving family.]]
* PubescentBraces: The thirteen-year-old Camille wore braces. It's played for horror when [[spoiler:grown woman Kelly-Anne dresses up as Camille, and is revealed to even wear braces to complete the illusion.]]
* PubescentBraces: The thirteen-year-old Camille wore braces. It's played for horror when [[spoiler:grown woman Kelly-Anne dresses up as Camille, and is revealed to even wear braces to complete the illusion.]]
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''Red Rooms'' (''Les chambres rouges'') is a 2023 French-Canadian film written and directed by Pascal Plante (his debut). It's about a mysterious model, Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) who becomes obsessed with the trial of Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), [=McCabe=]-Lokos), a SerialKiller accused of torturing and murdering three schoolgirls and distributing the videos online.
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''Red Rooms'' (''Les chambres rouges'') is a 2023 French-Canadian film written and directed by Pascal Plante (his debut). It's about a mysterious model, Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) who becomes obsessed with the trial of Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), a SerialKiller accused of torturing and murdering three schoolgirls and distributing the videos online.
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