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Directed by
Alain Corneau (Fear Trembling, All the Mornings of the World, Police Python 357)
Starring
Kristin Scott Thomas MULTI-AWARDED ACTRESS (The English Patient, I've Loved You So Long, Sarah's Key)
Ludivine Sagnier (Remi, Nobody's Boy, César Award nominee for Swimming Pool and A Secret)
Production
Saïd Ben Saïd / SBS FILMS
2009 / Original language: French / English / Color / 1.85 / Dolby SR SRD / available in hd & 2k
Isabelle works under Christine. They think alike. They are quite different. They might be lovers. But Christine takes credit for Isabelle's brilliant ideas. A struggle ensues between these two attractive and powerful women, the two top executives in the French office of an American multinational. Christine has the upper hand and no mercy. Humiliated and nearly destroyed, Isabelle begins to plot her revenge. Imaginative and thorough, calculating and exact, Isabelle makes an outstanding murderer. Every strange, seemingly haphasard thing she does - including a sudden drug dependence and wandering aimless in the rain - is part of her plan to kill. And get away with it.
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A film by
Alain Corneau
(Fear and Trembling, All the Mornings of the World, Police Python 357)
Produced by
Saïd Ben Saïd / SBS FILMS
Cinematographer
Yves Angelo
(Malabar Princess, All the Mornings in the World)
Production designer
Katia Wiszkop
(Angel, Les Destinees, Van Gogh)
French theatrical release
UGC Distribution
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Toronto Film Festival (2010)
Special Presentation
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"Hitchockian !"
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"A brilliant psychological chess."
SCREEN
"...a sort of Gallic DAMAGES with Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier in the Glenn Close and Rose Byrne roles."
"Alain Corneau delivers a solid, classical thriller (with the taut, sinister psycho-procedural Love Crime)."
"A cleverly designed whodunit."
"Jazz great Pharoah Sander's score gives the action an unpredictable and hallucinatory quality."
VARIETY
"Thomas shines in a unique role, Sagnier is impeccable."
THE GLOBE AND MAIL (Canada)
"A women’s crime drama with an incredible spot-on performance by Kristin Scott Thomas."
LE FIGARO MAGAZINE
“Love Crime delivers its venom in small doses, in an atmosphere of sexual tension.â€
“A beautifully ingenious subject.â€
“Corneau digs into the psychology of the characters to give that unique depth and body to what is happening on screen.â€
JDD
“A refreshing “good old†crime drama.â€
ELLE
“Alain Comeau signs a dry and striking crime drama, with no frills or down time.â€
20 MINUTES (Switzerland)
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