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Love Crime

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A ruthless corporate executive (Kristin Scott Thomas) and her ambitious protege (Ludivine Sagnier) bare their claws in a vicious battle for supremacy.

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Director Corneau's swan song, Love Crime is smart and typically well-directed, but too thin and formulaic to overcome its melodramatic trappings.

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Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard 12/14/2012
3/5
Corneau paints the business scenes with brushstrokes that aren't always credible but is better at the psychological battle between the two women, aided by very watchable performances from Scott Thomas and Sagnier. Go to Full Review
Gregory Maule Little White Lies 12/13/2012
2/5
A tepid and unsurprising drama that overstays its welcome. Go to Full Review
Peter Bradshaw Guardian 12/13/2012
2/5
Love Crime has some intriguing touches, but a good deal of hammy acting as well, and the crucial murder scene is bafflingly accompanied by an ill-chosen Japanese-flavoured dinner-jazz soundtrack that kills the tension. Go to Full Review
Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com 09/15/2020
2.5/4.0
It's a reminder of Corneau's status as one of few filmmakers in the world capable of crafting an intelligent and emotionally satisfying thriller. Go to Full Review
Kelly Jane Torrance Washington Examiner 01/05/2019
3/4
Scott Thomas stunned in one of the best English-language movies ever made, The English Patient, but now is doing her best work in France, where she's lived since she was a teenager. Go to Full Review
Mike McCahill metro.co.uk 09/01/2017
2/5
This undistinguished French drama limps through familiar workplace-hell territory without yielding much in the way of laughs or thrills. Go to Full Review
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Jerod S 03/02/2024 Love Crime is two female execs that are willing to humiliate, blackmail and even kill to retain the top spot at the company. Not very original, but a smart crime movie. See more 05/15/2015 A decent Hitchcockian drama thriller (if Hitch had been more interested in French lesbians) with an interesting enough premise, albeit capped by an ending you can see coming a mile off. The cast is as good as you expect, and keeps thing chugging along nicely anytime the film threatens to get too procedural. See more 03/28/2015 Finally had the time to see this! What a fantastic well written decently executed movie! The two leads were amazing and for being a French film this was worth every minute! Lots of twists & turns and a satisfying end. See more 02/20/2015 Large, spacious offices with magnificent views, a cluster of seemingly enviably successful business people.Everything is elegant and stylish, clothes and furniture. Almost like a perfect place on earth. But, this is corporate world, thickly populated with useful sociopaths, the lucky ones that made their pathology not only acceptable, but highly profitable. Well, good for them, but not so good for us. Their ruthless and efficient lunacy, transformed our world into new gladiator arena. Survival of the sickest. No room for compassion or decency. Hence the famous mantra of the demonic new ruling class. It's not personal, it's business. Dangerous saying for dangerous times. A permit to maim and slaughter all who are less deserving, and that's everybody, except themselves.Because who works harder doing nothing useful as this coven of warlocks and witches. New horror for the new era. See more don s 12/22/2014 A decent French crime drama. Even though you saw the crime take place, you are bewildered by how the investigation comes together and slick genius of Isabelle in turning the tables on those who have wronged her. Moves at a slow pace but the acting is very good and the story makes it worth it in the end. See more 05/08/2014 A thriller about the dark side of office politics and jealousy. Clever plot though the ending follows the standard formula somehow. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A ruthless corporate executive (Kristin Scott Thomas) and her ambitious protege (Ludivine Sagnier) bare their claws in a vicious battle for supremacy.
Director
Alain Corneau
Producer
Saïd Ben Saïd
Screenwriter
Alain Corneau, Natalie Carter, Alain Corneau
Distributor
IFC Films
Production Co
Invictus Films, France 2 Cinéma, SBS Films, France Télévision, Divali Films, Canal+, CinéCinéma, Sofica UGC 1
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 2, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 31, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$538.4K
Runtime
1h 46m
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