Review: Love Crime (12A)
But it also hints at what some people – here they happen to be of the ‘gentler’ sex – will do to advance themselves. In the case of Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier) it is remaking herself in the image of her ball-busting boss, Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas), an icy corporate exec with her eye on fast-track promotion. Isabelle finds herself taken under Christine’s elegant wing but just as quickly humiliated – publicly and cruelly – when she dares to outshine her on a deal. Thus begins an unspoken war between mistress and acolyte.
However it dares to present revenge as a dish savoured by two wholly different – and very similar – women. It takes audiences on an outrageous leap into the unknown, keeps them guessing via a police investigation that ricochets from suspicion to uncertainty to warm friendliness and presents men as dupes and dunderheads.
On limited release