Love Crime

Released Sep 2, 2011

1h 46m

Mystery & Thriller

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64%

81 Reviews

Tomatometer

46%

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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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Critics Consensus

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

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.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 14, 2012

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Gregory Maule

Little White Lies

A tepid and unsurprising drama that overstays its welcome.

Rated: 2/5

Dec 13, 2012

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

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.

Rated: 2/5

Dec 13, 2012

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

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.

Rated: 2.5/4.0

Sep 15, 2020

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Kelly Jane Torrance

Washington Examiner

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.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 5, 2019

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Mike McCahill

metro.co.uk

This undistinguished French drama limps through familiar workplace-hell territory without yielding much in the way of laughs or thrills.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 1, 2017

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Jerod S

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.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/02/24

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Serge L

The film goes fast and we jump into the story without really believing it. But intellectually it's fun to follow and see how it ends. A bit like a game of chess with twists and turns.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/05/21

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william k

Tightly directed with an excellent cast, this is a sharp (and twisted) crime thriller dealing with corporate ambitions and skulduggery and personal revenge.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

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.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

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.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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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.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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Alain Corneau

Director

Ludivine Sagnier

Isabelle Guérin

Kristin Scott Thomas

Christine

Patrick Mille

Philippe

Guillaume Marquet

Daniel

Gérald Laroche

Gérard

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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
Screenwriter: Alain Corneau, Natalie Carter, Alain Corneau
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: Invictus Films, Canal+, SBS Films, Sofica UGC 1, Divali Films, France 2 Cinéma, CinéCinéma, France Télévision
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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