Love Crime

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.

A tepid and unsurprising drama that overstays its welcome.

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.

A great thriller may yet be made about women competing in the workplace, but this French trifle from Alain Corneau ain't it.

All About Eve gone Gallic? Pretty much ...

This chillingly acted thriller is convoluted but compelling.

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.

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.

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

It is strange how un-French the film really is: Roman Polanski would have had a field day with this material.