Hard Since A Little One
Staff Favorite
Screened Sunday, October 12, 2008Synopsis
Screens as part of the 2011 New Orleans French Film Festival at the Prytania Theatre:
Tuesday, July 12, at 7:30 p.m.
Pitched at last year’s Toronto Film Festival as a cross between Dangerous Liaisons and Working Girl, the late Alain Corneau’s Love Crime (sounding more delicious in the original French as Crime d’amour) is all about office politics, one of the more virulent forms of political intrigue that even those most adverse to such things can scarcely avoided. Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier) is the young ingénue assistant, while Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas) is the older woman, a senior executive in a multinational company doing deals around the world. At first they are friendly. Christine, the able executive, is happy to pass the grunt work along to the up-and-coming Isabelle as she learns the ropes. But when Christine starts to take credit for Isabelle’s ideas, and a fellow worker bee begins to fuel Isabelle’s growing doubts about Christine’s duplicitous “all-for-one” attitude, the ground is prepared for all out war. And all out war certainly ensues.
