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Love Crime(Crime d'amour)

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France · 2010
1h 44m
Director Alain Corneau
Starring Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Mille, Guillaume Marquet
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In the high stakes business world, ruthless corporate executive Christine brings on young Isabelle as her assistant, taking delight in toying with her innocence. Isabelle openly admires Christine. But when Christine starts passing on her protege's ideas as her own, things take a dark turn.

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New York Daily News by

More cold fish than cold-blooded, director Alain Correau keeps his movie buttoned up and predictable.

70

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

It is interesting and ingenious, even if some of the kinky, queasy fascination that had been so intoxicating in the earlier scenes ebbs away.

50

Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker

The film is less corporate parable than intricately crafted revenge drama whose intensively detailed plotting can't hide the fact that the whole thing seems like a lot of work for a glaringly modest payoff.

80

Wall Street Journal by John Anderson

A delicious thriller that gets under the skin à la "All About Eve," albeit with a twist: The craft here is still theater, but of the workplace rather than the stage.

60

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

Love Crime soon plummets into a flashback-laden mess, a shame since it was marginally stronger as a psychosexual game of dominance.

50

Village Voice by Melissa Anderson

Even KST is left floundering as the misconceived, underwritten totem of today's amoral, power-mad executive, wearing flowing trousers and medallion necklaces not seen since Faye Dunaway demanded a meeting in "Network."

58

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

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.

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NPR by Scott Tobias

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.

75

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Brings to mind "Working Girl" and "The Devil Wears Prada" -- but it has delightful differences only the French could conjure up, plus a musical soundtrack from jazz saxophone great Pharoah Sanders.

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