SummaryIn the sterile setting of a powerful multinational corporation, two women compete ... Isabelle works under Christine, a woman she admires without reservation. But Christine is a dangerous, jealous woman who begins a game of perverse seduction and domination with Isabelle. This game goes too far ... to the point of no return. (Canal+)
Directed By:Alain Corneau
Written By:Alain Corneau, Natalie Carter
Love Crime
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52% Positive
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Sep 8, 2011
100
The goal of this review - why not just say it? - is to disclose as little about the story as possible while instilling a ravenous and even rabid desire to see Love Crime immediately.
Oct 6, 2011
75
The movie is called Love Crime. But its hidden message has more to do with business than with passion. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Especially one in a power suit, who knows how to work a room.
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Sep 4, 2011
6
Ludivine Sagnier movies are always a little off-center and entertaining, and Kristin Scott Thomas is routinely excellent in English or French. This is an odd little movie - much like a TV procedural - but with the absolute worst "fill-in" details surrounding their workplace. They might as well have just referred to everything as widgets and every "other" person a Joe Bloggs. It was laughable- in fact, the crowd did a lot of laughing in this film. But I have a feeling the filmmakers were laughing with us when they wrote and directed it. I had fun - just don't take it too seriously.
Sep 2, 2011
70
Picture initially suggests a sort of Gallic "Damages," with Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier in the Glenn Close and Rose Byrne roles, but the corporate catfight soon gives way to a cleverly designed whodunit.
Sep 10, 2011
67
It's all tease in the first half, and all implausibilities in the second. Still, Thomas is always worth watching, in French or in English, whether her mood be chilly or tropical.
Aug 31, 2011
58
A corporate crime thriller that explores the relationships of women in power, but while Corneau delivers a slick, well-acted piece with a surprising mid-movie twist, Love Crime is too thin and too on-point to deliver the jolt he and co-screenwriter Nathalie Carter most likely intended.
Sep 2, 2011
50
The lack of authenticity underlines the thinness of their conceit: Without a plausible backdrop, all that's left of Love Crime are the power games between two duplicitous women and the serpentine plotting that results. And even that, under the slightest scrutiny, frays like a thin layer of tissue paper.
Sep 2, 2011
40
More cold fish than cold-blooded, director Alain Correau keeps his movie buttoned up and predictable.
Oct 10, 2011
5
Rare for a mysterious thriller set in the high stakes business realm, Love Crime (Crime dâ
Apr 22, 2012
4
I have not seen a French film in years that I liked. At least this one is tolerable, though unbelievable; what the characters say and do did not touch me any in away. At least this time I did not FFWD through as I as waiting for the resolve, the exposure, the truth. But has been said by better, "you can't handle the truth" which is, many French films are over rated. Perhaps there is a certain gene I am missing. Not worth my time but not as bad as the usual French output that gets outstanding American reviews.
Dec 5, 2014
2
I adore Kristin Scott Thomas and cannot recall ever seeing her in a movie this bad. Her archly self-serving queen bee character -- even though she does it well -- is one you've seen before. Her antagonist and the whole supporting cast are nondescript, as is their vague line of work. Makes me want to rewatch "I've Loved You So Long" just to see again how wonderful KST can be.
Production Company:
- SBS Films
- France 2 Cinéma
- Divali Films
- Sofica UGC 1
- Canal+
- CinéCinéma
- France Télévisions
- Invictus Films
Release Date:Sep 2, 2011
Duration:1 h 44 m
Tagline:WARNING: If you have heart problems, DO NOT see this film. [Scandinavian DVD.]
Awards
Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Nomination
