Passion

An intense power struggle between an icy advertising executive and her timid assistant turns deadly in director {|Brian De Palma|}'s stylish remake of {|Alain Corneau|}'s {|Love Crime|} (2010). A cultivated beauty with expensive tastes and a serious kinky streak, Christine ({|Rachel McAdams|}) holds a top office at one of the world's biggest international advertising agencies. She didn't get ahead by shrinking into the shadows, so when her coy but incredibly creative assistant Isabelle ({|Noomi Rapace|}) dreams up a wildly popular marketing campaign, Christine takes full credit for the idea. Simultaneously repulsed and intrigued by her boss' shameless candor over the incident, Isabelle ignites an all-out war by sleeping with Christine's lover. Later, when Christine turns up dead after humiliating her assistant in front of the entire company, the perceptive Inspector Bach ({|Rainer Bock|}) struggles to sort through the clues as Isabelle grows increasingly unstable and her story seems to change with each new interview.