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Brian De Palma's "Passion" tells the story of a deadly power struggle between two women in the dog-eat-dog world of international business. Christine (Rachel McAdams)
possesses the natural elegance and casual ease associated with one who has a healthy relationship with money and power.
Innocent, lovely and easily exploited, her admiring protégé Isabelle (Noomi Rapace) is full of cutting-edge ideas that
Christine has no qualms about stealing. Christine takes pleasure in exercising
control over the younger woman, leading her one step at a time ever deeper into a game of seduction and manipulation,
dominance and humiliation. But when Isabelle falls into bed with one of Christine’s lovers, war breaks out. |
Based on the 2010 French film Love Crime, the final work from late director Alain Corneau, it follows two women competing
for power at a large conglomerate. The roles were played by Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier in the original
(highly recommended) film.
