Crime d'amour [videorecording] = Love crime / Sundance Selects and UGC present a film by Alain Corneau with Patrick Mille ; SBS Films, France 2, Cinema Divali Films ; produced by Said Ben Said ; screenplay adaptation dialogues by Alain Corneau and Natalie Carter.
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FilmPublisher number: IFC9805 | MPI Home VideoLanguage: French Original language: French Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publication details: New York : MPI Home Video, [2011]Description: 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 078861438X
- 9780788614385
- Love crime
- Cinematographer, Yves Angelo ; editor, Thierry Derocles.
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Main Library | DVD | WORLD Crime d' | Available | 33111007383926 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Celebrated French actresses Kristin Scott-Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier go head-to-head as dual femme fatales in this scathing, shocking corporate thriller from helmer Alain Corneau (All the Mornings of the World). Christine (Scott-Thomas) is the head executive at a top agribusiness firm in France. Ruthless and uncompromising, she revels in playing diabolical head-games with her staffers that include blackmail and seduction, and enjoys an almost pathologically close relationship with protégé Isabelle (Sagnier). The women also share a lover, accountant Philippe (Patrick Mille), who readily assumes a submissive role to the dominatrix posturing of each lady in the bedroom. The balance of power shifts, however, when a colleague (Guillaume Marquet) shows Isabelle how to "one-up" Christine in the office - which prompts Christine to respond with a nasty, humiliating trick involving a security camera. In the days ahead, retaliation escalates on both ends until each of the women begins contemplating felonious action against the other. To reveal more would be unfair, but suffice it to say that Corneau packs the narrative with a series of unforeseeable twists and turns. As the director's final film (he died in 2010), Love Crime brought Corneau much needed critical acclaim at the end of his life, following a series of disappointments including Words in Blue and Second Wind. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Cinematographer, Yves Angelo ; editor, Thierry Derocles.
Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Guillaume Marquet.
Within the sterile offices of a powerful multinational corporation, two women come to a face-off. Isabelle is a young executive under the orders of Christine, a powerful woman she absolutely idolizes. Confident of her control over Isabelle, Christine leads her into a confusing, perverse game of seduction and domination. A dangerous game that goes too far, to the point of no return.
DVD, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
French dialogue; English or Spanish subtitles; Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.