A young woman becomes obsessed with the trial of a man accused of three horrific livestreamed murders in Canadian director Pascal Plante’s stylish psychological thriller

There’s something rather unsavoury about our collective fascination with true crime, and, in particular, with serial killers. The need to unpick the grisly details; the voracious appetite for atrocity podcasts and series – it all holds up a mirror to a less than flattering aspect of society.

It’s this morbid curiosity, taken to an obsessive extreme, that Canadian director Pascal Plante taps into with his chillingly accomplished third feature, Red Rooms. A stylish, unsettling blend of courtroom drama and psychological thriller with a touch of cyber-paranoia thrown in, this French-language film focuses not so much on the horrific crimes and the man on trial for them, but on a young woman whose curiosity about the case starts to consume her.

In UK and Irish cinemas