Love Crime

France   Ludivine Sagnier, Kristine Scott Thomas

Sleek murder story. While this was engaging and easily held me because of its unusual plot there was a distancing air of artificiality about it that took away any real emotional response. Clever but contrived scheme could only happen in a screenwriter's mind.

Some of the boardroom dialogue was very amateurish and should have been vetted by someone who had actually been in one. Modern look. KST was solid as usual. LV couldn't pull off tiger woman executive the script called for. She sometimes affected a deer-in-the-headlights look that was meant to indicate churning gears inside but just made her look like a bewildered girl.

Not a failure...not a success either.

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